Here’s a paper by Floreano at EPFL from 1997 explicitly on Red Queen dynamics for creating neural networks for intelligent robot control.

There was lots of discussion of these ideas in the 1990s. In those days we trained very small NNs - tens of nodes - by evolving their weights and topologies. A run could take days on a workstation of the time.

This particular paper is about co-evolving predator and prey, where the behavior of each is the ‘evaluation’ of the other.

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/a65d0679-68...

Yeah I think it is broadly applicable to tech as a whole, I mean any great startup is just really a counter positioned company to incumbents -