Japan's Sakana AI touts breakthrough in more efficient AI training

Japan's Sakana AI touts breakthrough in more efficient AI training

TOKYO -- Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI says it has developed a system capable of accelerating artificial intelligence development and deployment by up

Sakana’s AI CUDA Engineer Delivers Up to 100x Speed Gains Over PyTorch

Japanese AI startup Sakana AI has introduced The AI CUDA Engineer, an agentic framework that automates the discovery and optimisation of CUDA kernels for improved GPU performance.  The company claims the framework can generate CUDA kernels with speedups ranging from 10 to 100 times over common PyTorch operations and up to five times faster than existing CUDA kernels used in production. CUDA is a low-level programming interface that enables direc…