# Sakana AI — Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing the Power of Automating Model Development

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2024-03-20T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Sakana models
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: EvoLLM-JP, EvoVLM-JP, EvoSDXL-JP
- Source: https://sakana.ai/evolutionary-model-merge
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4712-evolving-new-foundation-models-unleashing-the-power-of-automating-model

Sakana AI announces Evolutionary Model Merge, a method using evolutionary techniques to combine open-source models, and releases three Japanese foundation models: EvoLLM-JP (LLM), EvoVLM-JP (VLM), and EvoSDXL-JP (image generation). The models achieve state-of-the-art results on Japanese benchmarks. The associated paper was accepted to Nature Machine Intelligence.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/evolutionary-model-merge:

> We’re pleased to announce that our paper, “Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes,” has been accepted to Nature Machine Intelligence and published today!

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