Sakana AI bets AI that improves itself can break the compute arms race of frontier labs

In three linesSakana AI, co-founded by Transformer co-author Llion Jones, launches a dedicated research lab for recursive self-improvement: AI that iteratively improves itself. The Japanese startup views RSI as an alternative to the raw compute arms race among major US labs. Anthropic warns about control risks of this technology.

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