Sakana AI announces Evolutionary Model Merge, releases EvoLLM-JP and EvoVLM-JP

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Announced Evolutionary Model Merge, which uses evolutionary algorithms to merge open-source models automatically, and released EvoLLM-JP and EvoVLM-JP. Published in Nature Machine Intelligence on Jan 28, 2025

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Showed a path to non-English capability by combining existing open weights without pretraining — the prototype strategy for countries at a compute disadvantage

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