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Established Agents & robotics Release 10d ago
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Sakana smart cellular bricks research

Smart cellular bricks for decentralized shape classification and damage recovery | Nature Communications

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“Read the full open-access paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog: sakana.ai/smart-cellul... Congratulations to the team on this achievement!”

“In the future, we imagine smart materials that let structures sense and report damage on their own, and LEGO-like systems that recognize their own configuration and adapt in real time, pointing toward environments that are more robust, adaptive, and regener…”

Developing Models & releases Release 1d ago
⚡ 19 h early
Sakana AI new release

Sakana AI

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Incredibly proud of the Sakana AI team. We have developed an orchestration model right here out of Japan that achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world cybersecurity benchmarks! 🎌 sakana.ai/fugu-cyber-r...”

“Introducing Fugu-Cyber: our new orchestration model Blog: sakana.ai/fugu-cyber-r...”

Developing Models & releases Release 2d ago
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Sakana Fugu multi-agent model release

Sakana Fugu — Multi-agent System as A Model

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“Today, we are taking a major step toward that future with the launch of Sakana Fugu. Fugu dynamically orchestrates the world’s best models to tackle complex tasks. We’re proving that a well-orchestrated pool of swappable agents can match restricted frontier…”

“Fugu-Cyber is available as a new endpoint at sakana.ai/fugu Achieving high scores on a cybersecurity evaluation is only the beginning of the story. What does it actually take to bring frontier AI into enterprise defense? Thread:”

Established AI research Research 13d ago
⚡ 17 h early
Picbreeder open-endedness VLM experiment

The AI Picbreeder Experiment: In Search of Automatic Open-Endedness

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“Dive into our new AI Picbreeder Experiment here: pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-v...”

“The AI Picbreeder Experiment: Can AI agents be creative when nobody tells them what to create? Blog: pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-vlm Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.23908 In our #GECCO2026 paper, we revisit Picbreeder, a website where people collaboratively evolved …”