The fact that they built a Minecraft clone for the web is probably not the main point. It's just one of many systems they have built. (There have actually been

The fact that they built a Minecraft clone for the web is probably not the main point. It's just one of many systems they have built. (There have actually been multiple Minecraft-like web codebases around for years. Nothing as complete as Biomes that I know of though. I built a basic one 11 years ago. https://vimeo.com/50111926/comments https://vimeo.com/50111926/comments) They obviously already have lots of machine learning expertise and wanted top-level application engineering. This is a way to acquire a whole integrated team.