hardmaru says a Neuroevolution textbook co-authored with Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, and Risto Miikkulainen is in print. A free online edition is available, and print copies can be pre-ordered.
Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo will present SAIL at IROS 2026. On six simulated manipulation tasks, raising the search budget from one candidate to 45 lifted the average rate of finding a successful trajectory from 25% to 73%.
Sakana AI says Schmidhuber will help guide its newly formed RSI Lab, whose objective is a compounding cycle of scientific discovery aimed at improving machine intelligence. The company is assembling experts for the lab in Tokyo.
hardmaru announced Sakana Fugu on June 22, 2026, saying it dynamically orchestrates leading models and that a swappable agent pool can match restricted frontier models such as Fable and Mythos.
