My interview was featured in yesterday's edition of the Nikkei Newspaper. I discuss in detail why I launched Sakana AI in Japan, our strategy to compete in Japan by combining cutting-edge technologies from the US and China, and our future business strategy. Nikkei→
https://nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCB239D20T20C25A6000000/
… Let me share some highlights with you
@hardmaru
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Nikkei Newspaper Interview: Sakana AI Launch Strategy
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Open House 2025: AI Implementation in Finance and Defense
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[Event Report] Open House 2025: Tackling Tough Challenges in Finance and Defense, the Cutting Edge of AI Implementation in Society https://
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Building Frontier AI in Japan: Sakana AI Open House Remarks
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"Creating a Frontier AI Company in Japan" At Sakana AI, we held our first-ever Open House event, where I delivered the opening remarks along the following lines. I'd like to share the background of why I, someone who came to Japan from Canada over 10 years ago and immersed
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AI Benchmarks Will Continue Beyond Humanity’s Last Exam
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“Humanity’s Last Exam” is probably not going to be the last AI benchmark…
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Nested World Models: Recursive Simulation Architecture
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A world model inside a world model 🌏 https://t.co/XQCFzy2pjc
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 7 août 2025A world model inside a world model
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Scott McCloud illustration referenced in world models research paper
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Haha that was the same Scott McCloud illustration I also referenced in a paper about world models https://
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Free Research Environment Breeds Pioneering AI Research
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Nice recent interview: "A free environment without tradition or rules gave birth to pioneering artificial intelligence research." "Research is not about following trends, but about focusing on what is not yet trendy, and what has true originality leads to better results." https://bunshun.jp/bungeishunju/articles/h10274
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: A Decade of AI Influence
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“Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective” was published 10 years ago, and has been quite influential in the course of AI development:
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ICML 2025 Publication Ethics Guidelines and Standards
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From ICML’s Publication Ethics page: https://
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