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Announcing a Strategic Investment from Citi

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Sakana AI, a Japanese AI company, received a strategic investment from Citigroup following its Series B funding round. The company has announced partnerships with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Daiwa Securities in 2025 to develop custom AI models for specialized financial domains, and secured participation from Spain's Santander Group via Mouro Capital during its Series B round. This investment enables Sakana AI to accelerate international expansion and deliver AI innovations in global financial services from Japan.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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