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Noetra: SoftBank, NEC, and other major Japanese corporations back 'Made-in-Japan AI' foundation model developer
FundingJul 1, 2026

Noetra: SoftBank, NEC, and other major Japanese corporations back 'Made-in-Japan AI' foundation model developer

Noetra: SoftBank, NEC, and other major Japanese corporations back 'Made-in-Japan AI' foundation model developer Sakana AI, previously known as a Tokyo-based AI research lab, has relaunched under the c...

Sakana AI launches Sakana Fugu multiagent orchestration system, claims outperformance against Anthropic models
ProductJun 23, 2026

Sakana AI launches Sakana Fugu multiagent orchestration system, claims outperformance against Anthropic models

Sakana AI launches Sakana Fugu multiagent orchestration system, claims outperformance against Anthropic models Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI, founded by former Google researcher David Ha and Llion...

ProductJun 23, 2026

Sakana AI, the Japanese AI startup known for its evolutionary approach to model development, has lau...

Sakana AI, the Japanese AI startup known for its evolutionary approach to model development, has launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that is accessible through a single model API. The co...

ProductJun 22, 2026

Sakana AI launches Fugu multi-agent orchestration system for frontier-level performance without custom LLMs.

Sakana AI launches Fugu multi-agent orchestration system for frontier-level performance without custom LLMs. Sakana AI, an enterprise-focused AI startup, has launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration...

Mitsubishi Electric invested in Sakana AI, Japan's $2.6B AI unicorn founded in 2023, to embed founda...
FundingMar 27, 2026

Mitsubishi Electric invested in Sakana AI, Japan's $2.6B AI unicorn founded in 2023, to embed founda...

Mitsubishi Electric invested in Sakana AI, Japan's $2.6B AI unicorn founded in 2023, to embed foundation models into its Serendie digital platform for manufacturing and infrastructure. Sakana now name...

Google has invested in Sakana AI, a Tokyo startup valued at 2.65 billion dollars, following their 13...
FundingJan 24, 2026

Google has invested in Sakana AI, a Tokyo startup valued at 2.65 billion dollars, following their 13...

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. Th...
FundingJan 24, 2026

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to bolster Gemini's position in the Japanese market. Th...

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. Followi...
FundingJan 24, 2026

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to accelerate Gemini's deployment across Japan. Followi...

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 w...
TechnologyJan 20, 2026

Sakana AI has introduced RePo, a context re-positioning method that replaces fixed linear encoding w...

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...
TechnologyNov 24, 2025

Sakana AI is challenging the industry's reliance on the Transformer model, focusing research on its...

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 limi...
ProductOct 24, 2025

Llion Jones, a co-author of the 2017 Transformer paper, declares the architecture fundamentally limi...

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 frust...
TechnologyOct 23, 2025

Llion Jones, a co-author of the original Transformer paper and CTO of Sakana AI, is now openly frust...

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...

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