The speaker considers Sakana's team very smart and says Sakana branched off from an earlier GDM team working on open-ended evolutionary research.

“yeah yeah yeah um i mean i actually love the people there like i i think they have a really really smart team uh and it makes sense i mean it branched off from from like an earlier team at gdm which was also kind of i guess doing this kind of like”

“like open-ended evolutionary research style stuff what i liked about my experience there at least was that they did have that like mishap back i forget at this point when but i think”