We announced our RSI Lab earlier this year: https://sakana.ai/rsi-lab/ Over the last two years, we have systematically shipped the foundatio…

We announced our RSI Lab earlier this year: https://sakana.ai/rsi-lab/ Over the last two years, we have systematically shipped the foundations for autonomous R&D: ▪ LLM²: AI automating research to invent new optimization algorithms. ▪ Darwin Gödel Machine: Agents rewriting their own codebase to double performance. ▪ ShinkaEvolve: Hyper-sample-efficient program evolution. ▪ ALE-Agent: Self-learning agents beating hundreds of human experts. ▪ Digital Red Queen: Open-ended adversarial coevolution. ▪ The AI Scientist: End-to-end automated research, published in Nature. Now we are unifying them into a single mission: open-ended, adaptive architectures that collectively self-improve. Human intelligence did not emerge from unlimited resources. It was forged through open-ended evolution under strict constraints. We believe the same principle applies to AI. Recursive self-improvement should not be confined to a hyperscale cluster, but should enable vastly more efficient AI systems. Under Jürgen's guidance, we are taking our foundation of shipped research, from the Darwin Gödel Machine to The AI Scientist, to the next level. We are building world models an agent can plan inside, and systems that design and run their own experiments. We are seeking a select group of highly driven Frontier Research Scientists and Advanced Core Engineers. If you have a proven track record at top labs but want to break away from standard benchmarking to discover fundamental new laws of machine intelligence, apply here: https://sakana.ai/careers/member-of-technical-staff-rsi-lab/ Join us in Tokyo.

Source: David Ha (X) | 2026-09-25