Google DeepMind is acquiring a minority stake in the studio behind the space MMO EVE Online and plans to use the game to test AI models. At the same time, developer CCP Games is buying itself out from its South Korean owner Pearl Abyss for $120 million — less than the $225 million Pearl Abyss paid for the studio in 2018 — and rebranding as Fenris Creations.
DeepMind is running an offline version of EVE Online on a local server to study models for long-term planning, memory, and continuous learning. The live EVE Online server, Tranquility, will remain unaffected.
DeepMind has used games as AI testing environments for years, including projects such as AlphaGo, AlphaStar, and the Atari Benchmark. According to DeepMind director Alexandre Moufarek, EVE Online is well suited as a sandbox for general AI. Fenris CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson is expected to share more details in mid-May.
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