Japanese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sakana AI has completed a $100m (Y14.35bn) Series A funding round. The funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures, and Lux ...

Sakana AI co-founder and COO Ren Ito has been named AI Advisor to MUFG. His background includes experience in diplomacy and global business, having worked with Japan’s Ministry of Foreign ...

Sakana AI has hit unicorn status after raising more than $100 million in a funding round that included billionaire Jensen Huang’s Nvidia. By Zinnia Lee Forbes Staff Aug 15, 2024 ...

The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, the Japanese startup founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion ...

This week, Sakana AI, an Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA ...

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence, announced on Sept. 4 that it has received an investment from U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp.

In January, Sakana AI raised about 4.5 billion yen from NTT Group, Sony Group, and others, according to the report. Nvidia and Sakana AI did not immediately respond to Benzinga 's request for comment.

Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn’t necessarily untrue, there are caveats to note. The debate ...

Sakana introduces new AI architecture, ‘Continuous Thought Machines’ to make models reason with less guidance — like human brains. Carl Franzen @carlfranzen. May 12, 2025 4:08 PM ...

On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called "The AI Scientist" that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs ...

Sakana AI’s team also pointed out that The AI Scientist does not have computer vision capabilities, which limits its ability to fix any visual issues with the papers it produces.