Sakana walks back claims that its AI can dramatically speed up model training

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By Kyle WiggersFeb 21, 2025, 2:19 pm421 pts
This week, Sakana AI, a Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA Engineer, that could effectively speed up the training of certain AI models by a factor of up to 100x. The only problem…

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