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Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs

Sakana AI, in collaboration with MIT, releases a research paper and technical report on Digital Red Queen (DRQ), an algorithm that uses large language models to drive adversarial evolution of assembly programs (warriors) in the Core War programming game, leading to emergent strategies and convergent evolution.

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In collaboration with MIT , we are excited to release our new paper Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs ! ( arxiv )

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07 Jan 2026 15:00 UTC

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28 Aug 2026 21:48 UTC (+233d after)