The Elixir team has spent just over two years working full time on Evil Genius.
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Reasoning
Team's full-time development duration is an internal count, though press may report it.
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Demis Hassabis, “The Elixir team has spent just over two years working full time on Evil Genius.” (said 2004). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_97f2963fd7a2, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_97f2963fd7a2
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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