1/ AI scientists have made extraordinary progress in last decade — GANs, transformers & quickly scaling consumer + enterprise apps This progress has ALSO caused massive GPU absorption, training models w/ hundreds of millions of dollars & billions of parameters w/ no end in sight

2/ @Sakana_AI is taking the lead, pushing the frontier of AI technology - leveraging research innovations like 1⃣Evolutionary methods 2⃣Collective intelligence 3⃣Character-level training With nature-inspired foundation models that are 💫Adaptive ⚡️Smaller ✅Resource-efficient

@sakana_ai 3/ @SakanaAILabs team are research mavericks w/ a track record of pushing the field forward⏩ @hardmaru - co-founder Google Magenta, pioneered EvoJAX framework, AI x creativity leader @YesThisIsLion - co-author of “Attention is All You Need” paper defining SOTA architecture…

@sakana_ai @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion 4/ @SakanaAILabs being built in Japan is important - pivotal hub in a global axis of AI 🇯🇵 💡Home of innovation (bullet train, Sony Walkman, EMOJIS 🤗), early to embrace Twitter 🌏Stable democratic nation in Asian geopolitical landscape 💹Surplus economy w/ growing tech startups

@sakana_ai @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion 5/ @SakanaAILabs team has assembled a rockstar founding group of 9 @GoogleDeepMind @StabilityAI @PreferredNetJP @tokyotech_en Exceptional COO Ren was an early employee at e-commerce leader @Mercari & spent 15 years in diplomacy including as Prime Minster Abe’s speechwriter

@sakana_ai @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion @GoogleDeepMind @StabilityAI @PreferredNetJP @tokyotech_en @Mercari 6/ This investment is particularly special for me as I lived as an expat for part of my childhood in Tokyo 🇯🇵 @SakanaAILabs is hiring - both Japanese local researchers and expats looking for contract and full-time positions :)

@sakana_ai @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion @GoogleDeepMind @StabilityAI @PreferredNetJP @tokyotech_en @Mercari 7/ Read more on @business @rachelmetz coverage below:

@sakana_ai @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion @GoogleDeepMind @StabilityAI @PreferredNetJP @tokyotech_en @Mercari @business @rachelmetz 8/ And on @Reuters @annatonger below:

@graceisford @Lux_Capital @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion @BasisSet 's excited to partner with founder and investor mavericks :)

@WilsonKyi @Lux_Capital @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion @BasisSet 🔥🔥

@graceisford @Lux_Capital @SakanaAILabs @hardmaru @YesThisIsLion Exciting news - congrats!