# Sakana AI — ShinkaEvolve: Evolving New Algorithms with LLMs, Orders of Magnitude More Efficiently

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2025-09-24T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Sakana models
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://sakana.ai/shinka-evolve
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4708-shinkaevolve-evolving-new-algorithms-with-llms-orders-of-magnitude-more

Sakana AI introduces ShinkaEvolve, an open-source evolutionary code optimization framework that uses LLMs to discover new algorithms with state-of-the-art performance and unprecedented sample efficiency, tested across four domains including circle packing, math reasoning, competitive programming, and MoE training.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/shinka-evolve:

> ShinkaEvolve is an open-source framework (Apache 2.0 License) designed from the ground up to tackle the critical limitations of existing approaches

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