# SIMA: what I've logged

> SIMA comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from November 2025 to August 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Google DeepMind, filed under open weights, agents and coding and robotics.

## Items

1. **From Atari to EVE Online: 15 years of AI research in games** (Google DeepMind, 17 Aug 2026): Traces DQN through AlphaGo and SIMA 2, and announces a partnership to study long-term memory and multi-agent behavior inside EVE Online. [Primary source](https://deepmind.google/blog/from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-17-week-in-ai#item-3)
2. **SIMA 2** (Google DeepMind, 10 Nov 2025): A Gemini-based agent that plays in 3D game worlds, reasons about goals and improves itself. [Primary source](https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-10-week-in-ai#item-3)

## Posts

- 2026-08-17 [A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on games](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-17-week-in-ai)
- 2025-11-10 [GPT-5.1, World Labs' Marble, and Anthropic's espionage report](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-10-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/sima