Sakana AI Launches Sakana Namazu, a Japanese-Specialized LLM API
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Sakana AI launched Sakana Namazu, an API providing a Japanese-specialized large language model based on Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, fine-tuned for Japanese business contexts with built-in web search and code execution tools. The model improved on benchmarks including FairPoliticsQA (34.10% to 56.30%), instruction-following in Japanese (JFBench), and maintains strong reasoning ability across AIME26, MMLU-Pro, and LiveCodeBench v6. The API is available immediately on OpenAI-compatible endpoints at prices designed for broad corporate adoption, enabling use cases from automated market research reports to customer support automation.