Sakana AI

I tripped over another LLM + Evolutionary search post yesterday on HN: OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution (news.ycombinator.com) OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution (algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai) I like this area of research. It’s an area I’d dig into, if I was compelled to do research. I’ve touched on this before: AlphaEvolve and LLM Prompt Optimization and perhaps others. What is this field of study called? No consensus yet.

A weekly look at thought-provoking AI news. On 5 Jul 2025: Open-ended AI systems that continuously learn, adapt, and improve over long horizons.

This is a note about a mad science project I discovered, the works of a Japanese researcher who runs a single-person collective called Henyapente. Why a collective? In Japan there’s a tradition of hobby interest groups called Doujin (同人 meaning “same people”). A doujin is a group of people who share an interest, activity, or hobby. The word is translated into English as clique, fandom, society, or circle (as in “sewing circle”). Self-published creative works produced by these groups are a...

Some thoughts on the debate around the "singularity": is AI intelligence reaching a plateau, or is it likely to continue?