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Sakana AI

Nature-inspired AI foundation models.

Research

About

Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research company co-founded by former Google Brain researcher David Ha and Transformer co-author Llion Jones. The company is known for its Evolutionary Model Merge technique, which produced EvoLLM-JP, a state-of-the-art Japanese LLM that outperformed all Japanese models under 70B parameters upon release. Sakana AI has raised over $210 million and focuses on developing nature-inspired, biologically-driven AI architectures.

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Founded2023
Tokyo, Japan