I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools—Terence Tao mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1157223...

“iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier.” 😥 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

『日経ビジネス』のインタビュー記事が公開されました。 日本の組織構造は長年の知恵の結晶であり、無理にフラット化すべきではありません。特性の異なるAIを組み合わせ、既存の蓄積を代替するのではなく、人に寄り添う「コンパニオン」であるべきです。組織の強みを活かすAIの在り方を語りました。

Sakana AIでは、🐟 Recruiterを募集しています！ 先端AIの社会実装をミッションとするApplied Teamの一員として、EngineerやProject Managerなどの採用を担っていただきます。ダイレクトソーシングを軸に、候補者一人ひとりと直接的な関係を築くことで、Sakana AIの成長を加速させる重要な役割です。 JD： sakana.ai/careers/#rec... IT/テクノロジー業界でのリクルーティング経験を活かし、Sakana AIのチーム組成をともに担っていただける方のご応募をお待ちしております！

“Why AGI Will Not Happen” by Tim Dettmers. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w... This essay is worth reading. Discusses diminishing returns (and risks) of scaling. The contrast between West and East: “Winner takes all” approach of building the biggest thing vs a long-term focus on practicality.

Sakana AIでは、研究成果を社会実装につなげる「Applied Team」を急速に拡大しています。 世界最先端の自律型エージェント技術を駆使して、未踏のソリューション開発に挑むApplied Research Engineerを募集中です。技術の社会実装をさらに加速させる、コアメンバーとしての参画をお待ちしています🚀 sakana.ai/careers/#app... （正社員・学生インターン問わず歓迎です✨）

“We want to build AI models that actually understand Japanese context” An interview with Tarin Clanuwat published by the Tokyo Government. Read about our initiative to create AI that appreciates Japanese culture along with its rich historical contexts: tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/post-1649/

Where will entry-level developers gain the experience they need, as AI takes over grunt work? At Open Source Summit Japan, Sakana AI researcher Stefania Druga suggests AI could help solve this conundrum. thenewstack.io/ai-is-killin...

We’re in an “LLM bubble” not an AI bubble.

This is my 10th time attending #NeurIPS conference. The first time was in 2016 ✈️

New Job Posting! We’re looking to hire experienced Software Engineers to join our R&D team. You will help productionize our advanced AI-driven discovery platform and our model-development efforts. sakana.ai/careers/#sof... Japanese language fluency is not required for this role.

When participating in peer review, always aim to provide high-quality, constructive feedback designed to improve the work. Write reviews that you can proudly stand behind; authors will respect valuable feedback—even when their paper is rejected or your identity is revealed.

GPT-5 on Sudoku-Bench 🧩 GPT-5 now leads our Sudoku-Bench leaderboard with 33% solve rate, ~2x the previous best, and is the first LLM to solve a 9x9 modern Sudoku. Still, 67% of puzzles remain unsolved. Read more about our update here: 🔗 Blogpost → pub.sakana.ai/sudoku-gpt5/ 🧵 Thread 👇

We're pleased to announce that Sakana AI is co-hosting the “AI for Science: Algorithms to Atoms” social event and panel discussion during #NeurIPS2025 with Yann LeCun, Bill Dally, Anima Anandkumar, and Max Welling! If you'll be at NeurIPS San Diego, here’s the link to join: luma.com/AI-for-Scien...

I’m co-organizing an “AI for Science: Algorithms to Atoms” social event during #NeurIPS2025 with Yann LeCun, Anima Anandkumar, Bill Dally, and Max Welling. If you want to talk about AI Scientist, World Models, the future of AI-driven discovery, come by on Dec 5 3:30pm PT! luma.com/AI-for-Scien...

“In my view, AI is ultimately going to be a normal technology. In 20 years, our kids will just be using a chat bot like it’s a fax machine. It won’t be magical anymore. This will just be integrated and adapted into our collective system.” Gave my 2c at #BloombergNewEconomy Forum

Just realized I knew all about hedging ‘AI risks’ >15 years ago 😅

Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!

Excited to announce Sakana AI’s Series B! 🐟 sakana.ai/series-b From day one, Sakana AI has done things differently. Our research has always focused on developing efficient AI technology sustainably, driven by the belief that resource constraints—not limitless compute—are key to true innovation.

Announcing our Series B 🐟 sakana.ai/series-b

Great to see Tarin Clanuwat featured for her amazing work. She has a deep love for Japanese classical literature and is using AI to build bridges to that past for everyone. www.tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/post-1670/ We’re lucky to have her driving this at Sakana AI.

To me, the field of A.I. is a branch of Philosophy, not Science. I would even call it “Applied Philosophy”.

The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI

Excited to release our new work: Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata! pub.sakana.ai/pdnca We investigate how multi-agent NCAs can develop into artificial life 🦠 exhibiting complex, emergent behaviors like cyclic dynamics, territorial defense, and spontaneous cooperation.

Proud to release ShinkaEvolve, our open-source framework that evolves programs for scientific discovery with very good sample-efficiency! 🐙🧠 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19349 Blog: sakana.ai/shinka-evolve/ GitHub Project: github.com/SakanaAI/Shi...

Just received my copy of “What Is Intelligence?” by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social 🧠🪱 Thanks for sending it to Japan! 🗼 whatisintelligence.antikythera.org

Due to physical resource constraints, we currently estimate that around 300–400 of the candidate papers recommended for acceptance by the ACs will need to be rejected. We seek the support of our 41 SACs in addressing this distributed optimization problem in a fair and professional manner.

NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining venturebeat.com/ai/how-sakan...

We are honored that Sakana AI’s CEO David Ha (@hardmaru.bsky.social) has been named to the TIME 100 AI 2025 list. Full List: time.com/time100ai We’re truly grateful for the recognition and will continue our mission to build a frontier AI company in Japan. Thank you for your support!

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Both the English and Japanese editions now found a home in the Sakana AI library ✨ @sakanaai.bsky.social

Our new GECCO’25 paper builds on our past work, showing how AI models can be evolved like organisms. By letting models evolve their own merging boundaries, compete to specialize, and find ‘attractive’ partners to merge with, we can create adaptive and robust AI ecosystems. arxiv.org/abs/2508.16204

What if we could evolve AI models like organisms, letting them compete, mate, and combine their strengths to produce ever-fitter offspring? Excited to share our new paper, “Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion” presented at GECCO 2025 (runner-up for best paper)! arxiv.org/abs/2508.16204

Sakana AI が募集しているSoftware Engineerの募集要項（Job Description）をアップデートしました。 sakana.ai/careers/#sof... Sakana AIにおけるSoftware Engineerは、Applied Teamの一員としてビジネスのインパクトにつながるプロダクト開発を行っています。Frontend、Backend、Infrastructure構築の全体にわたって、AI技術を組み込んだアプリケーションの設計・開発に挑戦いただける方のご応募をお待ちしております！

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time. www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-y...

８/７に、Sakana AIは初となるApplied Research Engineer向けのOpen Houseを開催しました。現地で70名、オンラインで200名超の方にご参加いただいた本イベントのレポートを公開します。 sakana.ai/open-house-2... イベントでは共同創業者2名も登壇し、研究開発とビジネスの両輪をどう回し、日本や世界の産業・コミュニティにどう貢献していくかを語りました。また、現場で活躍するAppliedチームのメンバーが、チームの特徴や働き方、AIエージェント開発の実態、Researchチームとの連携などについて紹介しました。

Coverage of Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist in MIT Technology Review article. @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/06/1...

【UI/UXデザイナー募集】 Sakana AIでは、当社AI技術の社会実装のフェーズに進むことに伴い、一人目のUI/UXデザイナーを募集します。 詳細： sakana.ai/careers/#uiu... お任せしたいのはプロダクトのコンセプト設計から、プロトタイプの作成、ユーザーテストまでの全てのプロセス。AIによる価値実現に向け、目下成長するApplied Teamの一員として、Sakana AIのプロダクトづくりに挑んでくださる、意欲ある方のご応募をお待ちしています！

Andrew Ng’s piece on 🇺🇸 vs 🇨🇳 competition in AI worth reading: Full article: www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...

Kenneth Stanley & Joel Lehmanによる名著『Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned』の日本語版がBNN社より刊行されました！ 『目標という幻想：未知なる成果をもたらす、〈オープンエンド〉なアプローチ』 監修：岡瑞起、翻訳：牧尾晴喜、解説：岡瑞起・鈴木健 本書は、科学・技術・芸術・ビジネスなど 、あらゆる領域でブレークスルーを起こすための「目標を定めない」オープンエンドなアプローチを提唱しています。 『WIRED JAPAN』日本版にて、『目標という幻想』日本語版解説が全文公開されました。 wired.jp/article/why-...

「Sakana AIは学術研究のイメージが強いけど、どうやってそれをビジネスにつなげるの？」最先端AIの社会実装に挑む「Applied Team」インタビュー！ sakana.ai/applied-team... Sakana AIでは、世界トップレベルの生成AI技術を社会実装するために「Applied Team」を本格始動しています。 Applied Teamについて知っていただくことを目的として、AI研究の社会実装に挑む二人のメンバーのインタビュー記事を公開しました。 「事業専門性とR&Dの強みが社内に揃っているスタートアップの環境は、世界で見ても非常に珍しいのではないかと思います。」

ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts We live in a weird timeline… icml.cc/Conferences/...

Not Even Bronze: Evaluating LLMs on 2025 International Math Olympiad 🥉 matharena.ai/imo/ Nice blog post from the team behind MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions (arxiv.org/abs/2505.23281) providing independent analysis, debunking some claims about LLM performance on IMO.

New Essay by Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social): “AI Is Evolving—And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence”. Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential. www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...

【Sakana AIエンジニアの著書刊行🎉】 Sakana AIのApplied Research Engineer、太田真人が共著者を務める『現場で活用するための AIエージェント実践入門』（講談社）が刊行されました。進歩を続けるAIエージェント技術を実践に繋げるための知見が満載ですので、ぜひご覧ください！ Amazon: www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4065401402/ 8/7開催のApplied Engineer Open Houseには太田も登壇します。ご参加お待ちしています！ Event: connpass.com/event/362760/

8月7日18時からSakana AI初のApplied Engineer Open Houseを開催します！ Sakana AIのApplied Teamのメンバーが業務についてやSakana AIで働く魅力についてお話しします。会場参加（抽選）または、オンライン参加が可能です。 connpass.com/event/362760/ Connpassからの参加登録をお待ちしております！

【ハラリ×宇多田】「人間より創造的なAI」と、どう生きるか 「昔から私たちは、皆でたき火を囲んだり、物語を語り合ったり、動物を追い払ったり、あるいはただ楽しむために音楽を奏でてきました」 newspicks.com/news/1465471...

Hikaru Utada and Yuval Noah Harari talk about The Evolution of AI and Creativity youtu.be/xw-9mwZxl-0 Gotta admit, this was not on my bingo card!

Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper has 3295 authors arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261

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