The Evolution of AlphaStar – ITNEXT

A few days ago DeepMind announced their latest iteration of their StarCraft II machine learning bot, now known as AlphaStar. So much has changed since they announced the StarCraft II Learning Environment back in August 2017. David Silver, highly regarded for his reinforcement learning experience with projects like AlphaGo, has joined the team, which seems to have grown considerably. Back at Blizzcon in 2018, DeepMind demonstrated a bot that achieved a win rate of around 50% against the hardest game AI, pretty good but not mind blowing, so what changed in the last few months? I imagine that they would love to have demonstrated the decisive defeat of TLO and MaNa, but it seems they weren't ready.