
Latest news, updates, and announcements from Sakana AI.

Google has invested in Sakana AI, a Tokyo startup valued at 2.65 billion dollars, following their 135 million dollar Series B. Founded by ex-Google veterans, Sakana pioneers nature-inspired algorithms...

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to bolster Gemini's position in the Japanese market. This follows a $135 million Series B valuing the startup at $2.65 billion, cementing its status as Jap...

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to accelerate Gemini's deployment across Japan. Following Sakana's 135 million USD Series B at a 2.65 billion USD valuation, this partnership uses unique m...

Sakana AI has introduced RePo, a context re-positioning method that replaces fixed linear encoding with content-based token reorganization. This architecture improves performance by 11.04 points over...
Sakana AI is challenging the industry's reliance on the Transformer model, focusing research on its new Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) architecture. Spotlighted at NeurIPS 2025, the CTM integrates a...

Llion Jones, a co-author of the 2017 Transformer paper, declares the architecture fundamentally limiting, driving his startup Sakana AI beyond it. They introduced Transformer-squared ($T^2$), a self-a...

Llion Jones, a co-author of the original Transformer paper and CTO of Sakana AI, is now openly frustrated with the dominant architecture that powers most LLMs. This is the clearest signal that the ind...