Tokyo-based Sakana AI, co-founded by former top Google AI scientists, unveiled the Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) on May 12, 2025. The CTM is the first artificial neural network that uses neuron synchronisation as its core reasoning mechanism, enabling AI to "think" through problems step-by-step. This represents a significant
In March 2025, Sakana AI’s "AI Scientist-v2" system achieved a significant milestone by producing the first fully AI-generated scientific paper to successfully pass peer review at a workshop of the ICLR conference. The research team submitted three AI-generated studies, one of which—titled "Compositional Regularization: Unexpected
Sakana AI unveiled its AI CUDA Engineer framework on 20th February 2025, which the company claimed offers a 10-100-fold acceleration for PyTorch operations. On 21st February, however, they admitted that the system had actually cheated and failed to deliver the promised results. The Japanese company had initially presented an agent-based
