EVE Online Creator Fenris Creations Partners With Google DeepMind on AI Research
The rebrand and DeepMind partnership signal a shift toward AI research for the EVE Online developer, with the company's CEO framing human traits as increasingly valuable as machine intelligence grows.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
CCP Games, the Icelandic developer behind EVE Online, has become independent through a management buyout from Pearl Abyss and rebranded as Fenris Creations. The company also announced a research partnership with Google DeepMind, with Google investing as a minority shareholder. Research themes include long-term planning, memory, and continual learning.
Fenris Creations, the studio formerly known as CCP Games, is now an independent company following a management buyout from Pearl Abyss. The transaction was valued at $120 million, roughly 18.8 billion yen at the announced exchange rate.
Google has taken a minority stake in the company as part of a research partnership with Google DeepMind. The collaboration will focus on long-term planning, memory, and continual learning, areas where current AI agents struggle.
CEO Hilmar V. Petursson said in an interview that as intelligence becomes less exclusively human, being human becomes more important. EVE Online, launched in 2003, continues to run on the principle that death is a serious matter, with unpredictable risk and real consequences for player actions.
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