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Software Engineering as a profession will continue to fundamentally change in 2026.

Humans will need to learn to co-adapt to this evolving “alien technology” which comes with no real manual, and figure out how to operate it.

What a time to be alive ✨

twitter.com/karpathy/sta...
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
Merry Christmas! 🎄

Sakana AIでは、事業開発に関心がある方向けの「カジュアル面談窓口」をオープンしました！金融・防衛・インテリジェンス領域で、私たちがどのような開発に挑んでいるのか。中の人が直接お話しします。

募集職種： エンジニア、Project Manager、Product Manager 内容： 事業戦略、開発の裏側、チームの雰囲気など

最先端のAI開発を社会実装するプロセスに興味がある方、ぜひお気軽にご応募ください！

👉 応募フォームはこちら: forms.gle/sW5wz23SLSvN...

👉 募集要項: sakana.ai/careers/
December 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools—Terence Tao

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1157223...
“But perhaps this can be resolved by the realization that while cleverness and intelligence are somewhat correlated traits for humans, they are much more decoupled for AI tools (which are often optimized for cleverness), and viewing the current generation of such tools primarily as a stochastic generator of sometimes clever - and often useful - thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems.”
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
“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...
Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
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
December 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
hardmaru.bsky.social
『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。
sakanaai.bsky.social sakanaai.bsky.social @sakanaai.bsky.social · 12d
生成AIは「人の成長を加速させるパートナー」になれるか

Google Cloud様提供の『日経ビジネス』記事にて、Sakana AI CEO David Haが参加したインタビューが公開されました。業務に適したAIモデルの組み合わせ方や、日本企業の強みを活かすAI導入について語りました。

special.nikkeibp.co.jp/atclh/ONB/25...
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
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！
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
“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.
Why Scaling Is Not Enough I believe in scaling laws and I believe scaling will improve performance, and models like Gemini are clearly good models. The problem with scaling is this: for linear improvements, we previously had exponential growth as GPUs which canceled out the exponential resource requirements of scaling. This is no longer true. In other words, previously we invested roughly linear costs to get linear payoff, but now it has turned to exponential costs. Frontier AI Versus Economic Diffusion The US and China follow two different approaches to AI. The US follows the idea that there will be one winner who takes it all – the one that builds superintelligence wins. Even coming short of superintelligence of AGI, if you have the best model, almost all people will use your model and not the competition’s model. The idea is: develop the biggest, badest model and people will come. China’s philosophy is different. They believe model capabilities do not matter as much...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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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✨）
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
“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/
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
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...
AI Is Killing Entry-Level Programming Jobs. But Could It Also Help Save Them?
Where will entry-level developers gain the experience they need, as AI takes over grunt work? At Open Source Summit Japan, an AI researcher suggests AI could help solve this conundrum.
thenewstack.io
December 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
hardmaru.bsky.social
We’re in an “LLM bubble” not an AI bubble.
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
hardmaru.bsky.social
This is my 10th time attending #NeurIPS conference. The first time was in 2016 ✈️
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
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.
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
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.
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
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 👇
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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...
hardmaru.bsky.social hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · Nov 24
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...
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
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...
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
“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
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
Just realized I knew all about hedging ‘AI risks’ >15 years ago 😅
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/a-hedge-against-ai-crash-emerges-as-oracle-cds-market-explodes
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
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!
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
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.
At present, we are seeing a record amount of capital pouring into AI compute at a rate which may not be sustainable, funding AI businesses without a clear path to profitability, and consuming unprecedented levels of energy, to develop AI models under the assumption of near limitless resources. But is this really the future that we want to build? As an AI R&D company in Tokyo, we also question whether this is the right approach for Japan, a nation with limited resources, to build its Sovereign AI. We believe that intelligent life has arisen not from an abundance of resources but rather from the lack of it. Nature ultimately selects systems that are able to do more with less. It is debatable whether such constraints are a requirement for intelligence to emerge, but it is undeniable that our own intelligence is a result of resource constraints. Sakana AI has always done things differently. Since the beginning, our research has focused on developing efficient AI technology sustainably. For instance, rather than reinventing the wheel by training yet another large foundation model from scratch, we instead pioneered ways of using evolution to combine existing open-source models, using tree search to combine closed models, getting models to self-improve, to push the frontier of AI capabilities. Last year, we also pioneered the use of LLM agents to automate AI science, enabling more efficient algorithms to be discovered by AI itself. We developed energy efficient language models that work on edge devices, and we are also working on entirely new AI architectures which may carry us into a vastly more efficient AI paradigm. We also created our business model with sustainability and profitability in mind. This year, we built a healthy and growing enterprise AI business, where we have partnered with some of the largest enterprises in Japan to deploy AI-enabled business applications that can truly bring return on investment to our clients with our technology.
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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sakanaai.bsky.social
Announcing our Series B 🐟

sakana.ai/series-b
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
hardmaru.bsky.social
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.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
To me, the field of A.I. is a branch of Philosophy, not Science. I would even call it “Applied Philosophy”.
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
hardmaru.bsky.social
The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM