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Announcing Our Series B

Sakana AI ● Covered by 4 sources

Sakana AI raised 200 million US dollars in Series B funding to develop efficient AI technology tailored to Japan's needs rather than competing in large-scale model training. The company achieved a post-money valuation of 2.7 billion US dollars and plans to focus on post-training optimization and domain-specific applications in finance, defense, and manufacturing sectors. This funding enables Sakana AI to scale sustainable AI research and business deployment across Japanese enterprises and government sectors.

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TLDRocket 21 July 2026

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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