Notably, the company acquired Mojang for 2.5 billion in September 2015 and then later purchased MinecraftEdu in January this year with an announcement that Minecraft Education Edition would be available in summer. Originally designed as an internal tool, the company announced that it would be made fully available under an open-source license. Now, with a new name, the company has publicly unveiled Project Malmo, which has been described as "a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research." It is comprised of two components: a mod for the Java version of Minecraft and additional code that enables AI agents to become aware of and operate within the environment.