Sakana AI AI making AI Models Small MODEL Agentic Capabilities Reasoning MODEL efficient MODEL LLM-MCTS LLM^2 (DiscoPop) Monte Carlo Tree Search TAID Transformer^2 EMM/ CycleQD ADAS*1 Automated Design of Agentic Systems Evolutionary Model Merge Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation Discovered Preference Optimization AI Scientist AI CUDA Engineer Agent used as Applications Agent Based Modeling (ABM) Workflow Automation Simulation verticals “Beyond Transformer” • ASAL (Automated Search for Artificial Life) • LAD (Diffusion model + LLM) • CTM (Continuous Thought Machines)