It's been known that Bend Studio's game will have some kind of online component.
There was recently some job postings about looking for live service experience
Sony did post this.
There does feel like some amount of ambiguity.
They have Guerrilla in the evolving area, presumably because they have separate live service and single player games. They're doing both.
Maybe Bend is in the Evolving Category because they're transitioning from one to the other. Maybe they have plans for a single player game with a more expansive live servicy mode.
Maybe Sony was just trying to be ambiguous while Bend figures out what they're doing.
I'm not exactly sure what to think.