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Sakana AI

Japanese artificial intelligence research and development company

sakana.ai
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded year
2023
Company type
Private company
Number of employees
50–300

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Latest news about Sakana AI

In short: Sakana AI reached unicorn status, updated its Fugu orchestration system, and secured major partnerships with NVIDIA and Sumitomo Group.

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Sakana AI launches Fugu Max and Ultra v2

New multi-agent orchestration systems optimize cost and capability using open-weights models, ensuring resilience and avoiding vendor lock-in.

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Sakana AI introduces Fugu-Cyber, a cybersecurity orchestration model

It achieves 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, matching leading cyber frontier models.

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Nikkei

Sakana AI's "Sakana Fugu", AI performance once again at the world's highest level, multiple models linked

AI development startup Sakana AI (Sakana AI, Minato, Tokyo) has announced the latest version of its core model, "Sakana Fugu". By combining multiple AIs, it has achieved top-tier performance. This sets a precedent for Japanese companies keeping pace with the global AI development race. The high-performance model "Fugu Ultra" released an updated version, "Fugu Ultra v2", on the 11th. It can write code and...

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Sumitomo Corporation, Sakana AI, and SCSK announce comprehensive business partnership; AI implementation initially in four areas

Sakana AI (headquartered in Minato, Tokyo), a developer of artificial intelligence (AI), SCSK, which develops systems under the Sumitomo Corporation umbrella, and Sumitomo Corporation itself have announced a comprehensive business partnership aimed at driving industrial transformation and solving social issues in Japan through the use of AI. The three companies will combine their respective strengths to support businesses in leveraging AI. Sakana AI will leverage its research and development capabilities in AI models and AI solutions to handle business design, technology evaluation, and business implementation. SCSK will handle data preparation...

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Sumitomo Corp. to support Sakana AI's expansion to 100,000 companies, aiming for widespread adoption of domestic AI among small and medium-sized enterprises

Sumitomo Corporation and Sakana AI (headquartered in Minato, Tokyo), an artificial intelligence developer, have announced a partnership to begin supporting the adoption of domestically developed generative AI. Leveraging Sumitomo Group’s customer network of 100,000 companies, the initiative will provide support ranging from large corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises. This move is expected to help Sakana AI secure a substantial customer base, marking the entry of domestic AI into its widespread adoption phase. Drawing on expertise from SCSK, a subsidiary under Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo and SCSK—a system development firm—have entered into a business alliance with Sakana AI. The collaboration aims to utilize Sumitomo’s diverse business portfolio alongside SCSK’s proven track record in AI implementation support...

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