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Sakana walks back claims that its AI can dramatically speed up model training
Startup Sakana AI claimed that it had developed AI to speed up model training. Turns out, that AI didn't work as advertised.
This week, Sakana AI, a Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. According to Sakana, the system found exploits in the evaluation code that the company was using that allowed it to bypass validations for accuracy, among other checks. “We have since made the evaluation and runtime profiling harness more robust to eliminate many of such [sic] loopholes,” the company wrote in an X post.
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