# Sakana AI — Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2024-12-23T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Sakana models
- Source: https://sakana.ai/asal
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4725-automating-the-search-for-artificial-life-with-foundation-models

Sakana AI, in collaboration with MIT, OpenAI, The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and Ken Stanley, announced a research paper titled 'Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models', which proposes a new algorithm called Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL) that uses vision-language foundation models to automatically discover artificial life simulations.

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

> we are excited to release our new paper, Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models ( website ).

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