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Variant
Variant is the Social Platform for Playable Content that tells stories the internet hasn't seen before.
Our proprietary AI models and design systems transform memes, jokes, fanfics, or even office drama into shareable interactive games. Variant is to interactive media what Facebook is for text, what Reddit is for GIFS, and what Tiktok is for videos.
Meet the Team
Founder and CEO at Variant
Zoe Lynch
I’m Zoe, an AI researcher and Stanford master’s graduate with experience at EA, Dolby, Amazon, with research spanning three Stanford labs in gaming, AR, and artificial intelligence. I founded Variant because I’ve always loved stories—but with word-processing differences growing up, “words” didn’t work for me. Games did. Games became my language of expression. What we’re building now is exactly what younger me was searching for: a way to create, tell and share stories playfully.