Sakana AI
To develop nature-inspired, biologically-driven AI architectures that are efficient and democratized, specifically catering to Japan's unique needs.
At a Glance
- Financial Services
- Public Sector/Defense
- Academic Research
- Enterprise AI
AI Tools by Sakana AI
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ShinkaEvolve
LLM Evolutionary Code Search
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Latest News
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated AI Research, Now Published in Nature
Sakana AI raises additional corporate minority funding
Narrative Intelligence research featured in Yomiuri Shimbun
Sakana AI awarded contract by ATLA (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency) for defense AI research
Products & Services
A fully automated system for end-to-end scientific research, from hypothesis generation to paper writing.
A chat service optimized for the Japanese language and culture, powered by Namazu LLMs.
A vision-language foundation model designed for efficient multi-modal understanding.
A foundation model focused on multi-agent orchestration and complex workflow automation.
Market Position
Positions as a 'nature-inspired' alternative to the compute-heavy scaling laws of major US AI labs. Focuses on efficient models, evolutionary algorithms, and deep integration with the Japanese economy.
Leadership
Founders
David Ha
Former Head of Google Brain Tokyo; Research Lead at Google; background in finance at Goldman Sachs. Known for research in neuroevolution and world models.
Llion Jones
Former Senior Software Engineer at Google Research; co-author of the seminal 'Attention is All You Need' paper which introduced the Transformer architecture.
Ren Ito
Former Senior Director and COO of Mercari Europe; previous experience as a diplomat with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Executive Team
David Ha
CEO
AI researcher and former head of Google Brain Tokyo.
Llion Jones
CTO
Transformer co-creator and former Google researcher.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founded by former Google researchers who wanted to move away from the 'bigger is better' scaling approach of Silicon Valley. They chose Tokyo for its unique culture and talent pool, aiming to build a world-class AI lab in Japan that uses evolutionary methods to create intelligent systems.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Enterprise contracts, government R&D partnerships, and strategic investment partnerships (e.g., MUFG, ATLA, MIC).
Pricing Tiers
Currently in beta for general use and research.
Bespoke AI solutions for banking and defense sectors.
Target Markets
- Financial Services
- Public Sector/Defense
- Academic Research
- Enterprise AI
- Autonomous scientific research
- Financial analysis and lending automation
- Defense and intelligence monitoring
- Japanese language chat and productivity
- Misinformation detection
- MUFG
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Mizuho Financial Group
- Daiwa Securities