Sakana AI: Swimming Against the Current of Brute Force AI

Описание: This video was created by NotebookLM and serves as additional material for the Taiwan Soochow University workshop: "LLMs & AI agentic Systems."
Dive into the revolutionary philosophy of Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup founded in 2023 by former Google AI researchers David Ha and Llion Jones (co-author of the groundbreaking "Attention is All You Need" paper).

For years, the AI industry has relied on "brute force scaling"—building massive monolithic models that consume small cities' worth of power and cost tens of millions of dollars. Sakana AI is flipping the script by turning to Mother Nature for inspiration.

Named after the Japanese word for "fish," Sakana is abandoning the quest to build one massive whale in favor of creating a smart, agile school of fish.

Key Highlights in this Video:
Darwin's Algorithm: Learn how Sakana AI treats the internet of open-source models like a "gene pool," using natural selection to test, breed, and mutate models into highly optimized solutions.

The $15 AI Scientist: Discover their famous AI agent that automates the entire scientific process—from hypothesis to drafting a paper—for around $15 in compute costs. In 2025, it even became the first fully AI-generated paper to pass double-blind peer review at a major AI conference.

The Industry Shift: See how industry giants are taking notes, from OpenAI's "Swarm" framework to Google's strategic investment that pushed Sakana AI to a $2.6 billion valuation. We are moving away from the age of the monolith toward an age of the ecosystem.

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