Sakana AI Launches RSI Lab to Build Recursive Self-Improving AI Systems
SakanaAILabs · x · 2026-08-12
Sakana AI announced the establishment of the Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab, aiming to transition AI R&D from static, human-led processes to autonomous, self-improving intelligence engines.
- Research Focus: Covers frontier language models, world models learning physical dynamics, and the recursive self-improvement loop binding them.
- Background: Builds on CEO David Ha and Jürgen Schmidhuber's early "World Models" research, exploring agents learning policies within generated "dreams."
- Hiring: Actively recruiting full-time researchers, engineers, and interns in Tokyo, led directly by CEO David Ha.
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