Well as your funding goes up, the scope of your mission increases. I don’t see this as a “side project” so much as a necessary part of solving the bigger pictur

Well as your funding goes up, the scope of your mission increases. I don’t see this as a “side project” so much as a necessary part of solving the bigger picture. It’s like how building a battery factory is what makes Tesla work. You can buy batteries from Panasonic and indeed they did, but as they grew they realized they needed their own factory. In the same way, if you want to work on developing novel RL algorithms you can’t test it all in one game. You need a way to test it in many different problems using a standard interface. That’s how I see this.