Sakana AI
AI research company based in Tokyo, Japan
Records 5
Newest first. Open one to see it with its source.
A Japanese private AI lab enters security intelligence analysis work. A sign that the combination of AI and defense has moved beyond discourse into procurement
AI-generated papers passing review entered the formal scholarly record. The debate over how to evaluate automated research got going in earnest
The largest round for a Japanese AI startup. Its self-definition — avoiding the compute race and taking the efficiency route — was put in writing at the same time
Turned the research-automation discourse into a concrete figure: $15 per paper
Showed a path to non-English capability by combining existing open weights without pretraining — the prototype strategy for countries at a compute disadvantage