The main reason people in the AI community believe Universe has been abandoned is because the engineers who worked on it have been laid off, and also because no

The main reason people in the AI community believe Universe has been abandoned is because the engineers who worked on it have been laid off, and also because none of the promised updates actually materialized. This doesn't preclude the possibility of a fresh non-VNC take in universe with a smaller team of course, perhaps also with more focus on benchmarking (like Atari, Labyrinth) than universality.