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Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research and product company that has raised $200 million in Series A funding to develop nature-inspired foundation models based on evolution and collective intelligence. The company has released multiple products including Fugu orchestration models for coding and security tasks, Sakana Chat, Marlin, and Translate, along with specialized tools like Fugu-Cyber for cybersecurity and image generation models trained on Japanese ukiyo-e artwork. Recently, Sakana AI has also demonstrated research capabilities including automated scientific discovery through its AI Scientist system and preference optimization algorithm discovery through LLM².

Updated 3 August 2026

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Latest developments

Sakana AI Defense and Intelligence Team Places 5th in Diver OSINT CTF 2026 Using Fugu Agent Sakana AI · 24 From Japan, Products the World Will Use: An Interview with Sakana AI's Head of Product Development Sakana AI · 45 Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Cyber: An Orchestration Model Reporting 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM MarkTechPost · 1 week ago · 22 Announcing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 and Claude Code interface for Fugu Sakana AI · 40 We raised $30M to develop nature-inspired AI in Japan Sakana AI · 42 We received a supercomputing grant from the Japanese government Sakana AI · 17 Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs? Sakana AI · 12 AI That Learned Japanese Beauty: Sakana AI Releases Evo-Ukiyoe and Evo-Nishikie Models Sakana AI · 45

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2026

Sakana AI releases multiple products including Chat, Marlin, Fugu, and Translate; Fugu agent places 5th in Diver OSINT CTF 2026 Product launch

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, matching Fable 5 capabilities at half the price Model release

Sakana AI Signs Strategic Partnerships with Major Japanese Financial Institutions Including MUFG Bank and Hokukoku Financial Holdings Partnership

Sakana AI's AI Scientist System Produces First Peer-Reviewed Publication at Top-Tier ML Venue Research publication

Sakana AI publishes research on evolutionary algorithms for automated AI model fusion and merging Research publication

Sakana AI Launches Applied Team Division to Commercialize AI Technology for Finance and Defense Sectors Product launch

Sakana AI and Daiwa Securities Group Partner to Develop AI-Powered Wealth Management Platform Partnership

Sakana AI releases Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA methods for rapid language model customization Research publication

Sakana AI's ALE-Agent wins first place in AtCoder Heuristic Contest 058 Benchmark result

Sakana AI launches business development division and applied team for AI commercialization Other

Sakana AI Introduces Context Repositioning and Positional Embedding Methods for Extended LLM Context Research publication

Sakana AI Announces Strategic Partnerships with Google and Datadog Partnership

Sakana AI closes Series B funding round at $2.7 billion valuation with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Citigroup Funding

Sakana AI raises $200 million Series A funding led by NEA, Khosla Ventures, and Lux Capital Funding

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