# Sakana AI — Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2026-01-07T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Sakana models
- Source: https://sakana.ai/drq
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4701-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/drq:

> 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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