Overview
- DeepMind has acquired a minority stake in Fenris Creations and launched a formal research partnership that will run AI agents inside an offline local-server copy of EVE Online.
- Fenris Creations completed a $120 million management buyout from Pearl Abyss that returned operational control to the studio formerly known as CCP Games.
- Researchers will use more than 20 years of player activity across thousands of in-game star systems as a behavioral dataset to study long-horizon strategic planning and memory in agents.
- Both parties say the work is fundamental research conducted in a controlled environment and not intended to produce immediate player-facing AI features.
- The collaboration builds on DeepMind’s history of using games as research platforms and could shape how AI systems learn from long-running, socially driven virtual economies.