Sakana AI: Foundation Models for Automating Artificial Life Discovery

Discover how Sakana AI's ASAL leverages foundation models to explore artificial life, enabling automated discovery of simulations and emergent phenomena.

2024 Nears Its End, and AI Brings a Big Surprise: A System to Discover New Forms of Artificial Life

In August this year, Sakana AI, an artificial intelligence company co-founded by Llion Jones (co-author of the Transformer paper) and former Google researcher David Ha, unveiled the "world’s first AI system for automating scientific research and open-ended discovery."

Now, they’ve delivered another groundbreaking innovation: ASAL, a system using foundation models to search for artificial life.

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