Developer Builds Fighting Game Where AI Models Battle Based on Real Architecture

A developer on DEV Community has created 'Model Kombat,' a retro-style 2D fighting game in which popular large language models such as GPT-4o, Claude Opus, DeepSeek, and Mixtral compete as playable characters. Each fighter's visual complexity and abilities directly reflect real-world AI engineering concepts, including parameter count, context window size, and reasoning token generation. Game mechanics like the Ki bar simulate time-to-first-token latency, while a 'Context Eviction' penalty represents what happens when a model's context window overflows. Mixture-of-Experts models dynamically activate specialist nodes during combat, granting buffs tied to text, math, or vision capabilities. The project aims to make abstract AI benchmarking concepts more intuitive and engaging through interactive gameplay.