2025-10-23
Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model
In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that he's moving on from his own creation.
Llion Jones, who co-authored the seminal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" and even coined the name "transformer," delivered an unusually candid assessment at the TED AI conference in San Fran [...]
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'Western Qwen': IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture
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Japanese startup Sakana AI explores time-based thinking with brain-inspired AI model
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup, has introduced a new kind of AI system designed to mimic how the brain processes time.<br /> The article Japanese startup Sakana AI explores time-based thinking [...]
2025-06-01
Sakana AI's Darwin-Gödel Machine evolves by rewriting its own code to boost performance
With the Darwin-Gödel Machine (DGM), Sakana AI introduces an AI system that can iteratively improve itself through self-modification and open-ended exploration. Early results look promising, but the [...]
2025-06-21
Sakana AI's ALE AI agent cracks the top 21 among 1,000 code experts
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2025-04-22
Overwatch 2's frenetic Stadium mode is a new lease on life for my go-to game
I try to play as broad a swathe of games as I can, including as many of the major releases as I am able to get to. Baldur's Gate 3 garnered near-universal praise when it arrived in 2023, and I wa [...]
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Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]
2025-10-07
Has this stealth startup finally cracked the code on enterprise AI agent reliability? Meet AUI's Apollo-1
For more than a decade, conversational AI has promised human-like assistants that can do more than chat. Yet even as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude learn to reason, expl [...]