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Sakana AI

Japanese artificial intelligence research and development company

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Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 50–250
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Sakana AI

In short: Sakana AI reached unicorn status after an Nvidia investment and expanded its ecosystem through strategic partnerships and product launches.

Company announcements

August 3 Sakana AI

Sakana AI launches Japanese-specialized LLM API Sakana Namazu

Built on Kimi K2.6, it offers OpenAI-compatible access with built-in web search and code execution for Japanese business contexts.

July 30 Sakana AI

Sakana AI wins 5th place in DIVER OSINT CTF 2026

Using an OSINT agent based on Fugu-ultra 1.1, demonstrated effectiveness in defense and security by combining human expertise and AI.

July 21 Sakana AI

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.

July 13 Sakana AI

Sakana AI introduces smart bricks for collective shape classification

Hundreds of modular bricks, each running identical neural networks, infer their global shape and detect damage through local communication only.

Media coverage

August 4 Nikkei

Utilizing multiple firms, core is Japanese 'Sakana' proposal

The government has begun deliberations on introducing a U.S.-made artificial intelligence (AI) system for the command and control of Self-Defense Force units. By using AI, it will close the gap with the U.S. military, which has been speeding up decision-making, and strengthen integrated operations. To avoid reliance on a specific company, it is expected to use systems from multiple companies. (Related article on politics and diplomacy page) It will work out details toward the revision of three security-related documents, including the National Security Strategy, scheduled for the end of the year. From Palantir Technologies' AI-equipped software 'Maven Smart...'

July 22 MSN

Sakana AI Fugu-Cyber claims 86.9% vulnerability score; benchmark methodology not disclosed

Sakana AI Fugu-Cyber launched July 21, 2026, claiming 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, above GPT-5.5-Cyber and ...

June 22 Nikkei Asia

Japan's 'Sakana Fugu' multiagent AI scores well against Fable 5, GPT 5.5

Japanese startup Sakana AI announced Monday the public release of the Sakana Fugu service that combines multiple artificial intelligence models into one collaborative workflow.

March 31 Asahi Shimbun

Sakana AI hits unicorn status following Nvidia investment deal

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence, announced on Sept. 4 that it has received an investment from U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp.

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