But as the app grew, so too did the vision. Training and warming up was a core part of Aim Lab's appeal. Could data gathered to that end be leveraged for matchmaking, with players' skill profiles used to place them into more satisfying games? There were brief flirtations with fantasy and sportsbetting, which Mackey says "weren't really exciting." In November, Statespace purchased Pro Guides, which operates something like a MasterClass program for esports, as well as coaching that matches professional players with paying clients.

SpaceX and Tesla Motors boss Elon Musk has open-sourced OpenAI Gym, which is a kind of training gym for artificial intelligence programs. The virtual gym is created to help computer programmers improve their AI systems. The gym is under Musk's OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research organization supported by over 1 billion in commitments. OpenAI is Elon Musk's nonprofit dedicated to releasing cutting-edge AI research for free. It is also backed by other Silicon Valley heavies, including LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Y-Combinator founders Jessica Livingston and Sam Altman, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and Stripe's Greg Brockman.