hardmaru is a co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI and a researcher in neuroevolution. Recent coverage centers on Sakana AI's work: the release of The AI Scientist v3, called the Agentic Scientist; a paper on recursive self-improvement through multi-agent self-supervision (MASS); Jürgen Schmidhuber joining as Chief Scientific Advisor and an October 26 Tokyo symposium; a neuroevolution textbook co-authored with Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang and Risto Miikkulainen; and a Nikkei Asia op-ed on AI orchestration.
The AI Scientist v3 is out: The Agentic Scientist. GitHub: Blog: arXiv: The Agentic Scientist is the 3rd iteration of our automated AI Scientist research system, and the shift this time is from “one agent writes a paper” to “a scaffold of parallel agents orch…
New paper from the team at Sakana AI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS) How do we keep improving AI when the tasks become too complex for humans to reliably evaluate? For open-ended research, we eventually hit a "supervisi…
I find myself enjoying the pope’s hot takes about intelligence 🔥 [Quoting @Pontifex]: Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain de…
Registration now open: From World Models to Real-World AI Join us on October 26 in Tokyo for a symposium with @SchmidhuberAI, who recently joined @SakanaAILabs as our Chief Scientific Advisor. The program features a keynote and Q&A by Jürgen and short talks…
Recently learned that Schmidhuber’s Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, covering compression progress and intrinsic motivation and their relationship to beauty, curiosity, art, science, music, and jokes, was published in a Japanese scientific journal in 2009…
Love that the AI consciousness debate went straight to the Vatican. In the West we ask whether Claude has a soul, in the East we ask whether the tool works. Same technology, completely different starting point. Explains a lot about why the vibes around AI are…
I just published an op-ed in @NikkeiAsia on why the future of AI belongs to the orchestrators. A school of fish does things no single fish can. The same is true for AI. I wrote about why the next phase of AI development won't necessarily be about building the…
Our Neuroevolution textbook is finally in print! Free online edition: Pre-order: I am incredibly grateful to my co-authors Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, and Risto Miikkulainen for making this happen. Neuroevolution is a subject very dear to my heart. It is the…
The last sentence in the Schmidhuber news trending item summary hits hard 🙃
Jürgen Schmidhuber is joining Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor. @SchmidhuberAI pioneered meta-learning, recursive self-improvement, and world models back in the 1990s, when compute was a million times more expensive. He has been thinking about machines t…
Schmidhuber was building recursive self-improving systems back in 1987. His new post covers four decades of RSI, from meta-evolution and self-modifying policies to the Gödel Machine and modern LLM agents. Reading this in 2026, the "pace the frontier" talk fro…
Do large language models actually understand the world, or are they just very good at pretending? Does it even matter? Our recent special issue in the Royal Society, “World Models in Natural and Artificial Intelligence,” brings together pioneers across AI, bi…
Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier The AI industry has spent a decade optimizing along a single axis: build bigger, more expensive models. But intelligence has never been a monolith. It is a collective, distributed syste…
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