Sakana AI
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Sakana AI is tracked in TLDRocket’s company dataset. Explore the recorded developments, relationships and supporting evidence below. Coverage reflects our monitored sources and may be incomplete.
Updated 23 October 2026
Signals
11 stories (+22%)
Media momentum
As of 1 Nov 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.
6 sources
Source diversity
As of 1 Nov 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.
1 event
Release activity
As of 1 Nov 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
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Funding signals
As of 1 Nov 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
Jun 2026 → Oct 2026
Coverage span
As of 1 Nov 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Funding history
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$200 million Series B confirmed coverage →
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$200 million Series A confirmed coverage →
NVIDIA Lux Capital New Enterprise Associates Khosla Ventures
Management records
updated 2 Oct 2026Observed in public listings; this is not a verified current management roster.
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David Ha
CEO
- Sota Omura Head of product
- Yuta Tamaru Corporate Operations Manager
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Ai Fujiki
Head of Corporate Development
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Takuya Akiba
Staff Research Scientist
Latest developments
October 2026
Feature update: Sakana AI & Sakana API Platform Feature update
- Feature update: Sakana AI & Sakana API Platform
- Market development: Sakana AI
- Feature update: Sakana AI
- Market development: Sakana AI & University of British Columbia
- Market development: Sakana AI & Sakana Aquarium
- Market development: Sakana AI
- Market development: Sakana AI
- Market development: Sakana AI & Sakana Chat
- Market development: Sakana AI & MarkTechPost
- Market development: Evidence Finder & Iris
- Market development: Sakana AI
September 2026
Partnership: Sakana AI & University of Tokyo Partnership
Partnership: Sakana AI & RSI Lab Partnership
Model release: Fugu Max & Fugu Ultra v2 Model release
Partnership: SCSK & Sakana AI Partnership
Partnership: SCSK & Sakana AI Partnership
- Market development: Sakana AI & University of Tokyo
- Market development: Sakana AI & RSI Lab
- Market development: Sakana AI & Frontier Intelligence Group (FIG)
- Market development: Sakana AI & Fugu Max
- Market development: Sakana AI & Sakana Marlin
- Market development: Sakana AI & JAX
- Market development: Sakana AI
- Model release: Sakana AI & Fugu Max
- Market development: Sakana AI & SCSK
August 2026
Product launch: Daiwa Securities & Sakana AI Product launch
- Market development: Sakana AI & Sakana Namazu
- Market development: Sakana AI & Sakana Chat
- Market development: Sakana AI & Conductor
- Product launch: Sakana AI & Daiwa Securities
- Product launch: Sakana AI & Sakana Namazu
July 2026
Product launch: Sakana AI & Fugu-ultra 1.1 Product launch
Model release: Anthropic & Claude 5 Model release
Research publication: Sakana AI & The AI Scientist Research publication
Partnership: Hokukoku Financial Holdings & MUFG Bank Partnership
Research publication: CycleQD & EvoLLM-JP Research publication
Benchmark result: ALE-Agent & Sakana AI Benchmark result
Other: Sakana AI & LINE Yahoo Other
Funding: DEEP DIVE & Sakana AI Funding
- Product launch: Sakana AI & Fugu-ultra 1.1
- Product launch: Sakana AI & Sakana Chat
- Model release: Sakana AI & Fugu-Cyber
- Model release: Sakana AI & Fugu-Ultra v1.1
- Funding: Sakana AI & NTT Group
- Funding: Sakana AI & Japanese government
- Market development: Sakana AI & Discovered Preference Optimization
- Market development: Sakana AI & Evo-Ukiyoe
- Research publication: Sakana AI & The AI Scientist
- Funding: Sakana AI & NVIDIA
- Research publication: Sakana AI & CycleQD
- Market development: Sakana AI & Fugu-Cyber
- Market development: Sakana AI & Neural Attention Memory Models
- Market development: Sakana AI & MIT
- Market development: Sakana AI & TAID
- Market development: Sakana AI
- Other: Sakana AI & LINE Yahoo
- Benchmark result: o3 & Sakana AI
- Funding: Sakana AI & NVIDIA
- Market development: Sakana AI & Karamaru
- Other: Sakana AI
- Partnership: Sakana AI & Mitsubishi UFJ Bank
- Partnership: Sakana AI & MUFG Bank
- Market development: Sakana AI & EDINET-Bench
- Partnership: Sakana AI & Hokukoku Financial Holdings
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Sakana Marlin · 4 sources
- Develops ALE-Agent · 4 sources
- Develops Sakana Fugu · 3 sources
- Develops Fugu · 3 sources
- Develops ShinkaEvolve · 3 sources
- Develops Sakana Namazu · 3 sources
- Develops Sakana Chat · 2 sources
- Develops Sakana Translate · 2 sources
- Develops Fugu-Cyber · 2 sources
Partnerships
- Partnered with Mitsubishi UFJ Bank · 2 sources
- Partnered with Daiwa Securities Group · 2 sources
- Partnered with Daiwa Securities · 2 sources