August 16, 2026

Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model

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In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become d...