Google DeepMind has published a detailed account of its 15-year arc of AI research in games, culminating in its research partnership with Fenris Creations, the independent studio behind EVE Online, and laying out the staged research program the two organizations plan to run inside the EVE universe. The August 21, 2026 post connects the lab’s earliest reinforcement learning results to its current work on generalist agents and names the specific capabilities it expects the EVE environment to…