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| 16.09.2026 | Salesforce researchers took an AI agent from finishing 43.5% of browser tasks to 93% without touching the model | Self-improving AI agents can inspect their failures and modify the prompts, tools, skills and workflows around the underlying model, or the “harness.” But reliably compounding those improvements is difficult. An edit that helps one task can... |
| 11.09.2026 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash debuts with $0.003/1M off-peak cached-input rate and benchmarks eclipsing GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 5 | DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash last night with a 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts backbone, native vision, a 1-million-token context window and an architecture built to make repeatedly reading large contexts cheaper.
Its open... |
| 01.09.2026 | Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a 75% cost reduction for Fable cache reads | It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1... |
| 13.08.2026 | DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices | DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.
The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an updated flagship model focused heavily on... |
| 13.08.2026 | Departing Google chief scientist Jeff Dean has been in talks for a $10 billion valuation for his new AI startup | Jeff Dean spent 27 years helping build Google. Now, investors could be betting $1 billion that he can build the next big thing in AI outside it.
The legendary Google engineer has been in discussions for $1 billion in financing at a valuatio... |
| 12.08.2026 | SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis | Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to ru... |
| 06.08.2026 | Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents | Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts the company in direct competition with An... |
| 04.08.2026 | Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use | Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the mos... |
| 22.07.2026 | Sakana AI Fugu-Cyber Claims 86.9% Vulnerability Score; Benchmark Methodology Not Disclosed | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jul 22 2026, 11:45 AM EDT
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| 18.07.2026 | Brain-Like Learning Rule Cracks Convolutional Networks: Sakana AI Measures the Biology Tax | By Scott McCain
Published: Jul 18 2026, 8:54 AM EDT
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| 16.07.2026 | Sakana Fugu Adds Nemotron to Prove Open Models Can Route Past Proprietary Walls | By Eloise Jones
Published: Jul 16 2026, 7:48 PM EDT
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| 14.07.2026 | Как OpenRouter Fusion обошёл Claude Fable 5 | Мультимодельная оркестрация – модная нынче ставка: вместо одной модели дёргаешь несколько разом, а отдельная модель-судья сводит их ответы в один. OpenRouter продаёт это под именем Fusion, Sakana AI – под именем Fugu, и обещание у обоих одн... |
| 01.07.2026 | Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it? | Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew the emergency export controls it had issued previously around the mo... |
| 23.06.2026 | No Claude Fable 5? No problem: Sakana achieves frontier performance with new Fugu multi-model, auto synthesis system | Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that delivers frontier-level AI performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API.
Designed for developers, enterprises, a... |
| 22.06.2026 | Hypernetworks Reshape Enterprise AI: Autonomous Agents Move Beyond Context Limitations | Enterprise AI agents face hurdles in sustained autonomy, struggling with knowledge retention and context management. Conventional methods like fine-tuning lead to catastrophic forgetting, while Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) suffers f... |
| 19.06.2026 | Fine-tuning forgets. RAG leaks context. Hypernetworks build the model your agent needs on demand. | Enterprise teams keep watching the same thing happen. An AI agent demos beautifully, goes to production, and stalls: it runs for a short stretch, then needs a human to top up its context and check its output, and the promised efficiency dra... |
| 17.06.2026 | French president urges US to share cutting-edge AI and democracies to cooperate on regulation | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating... |
| 17.06.2026 | ‘A signal of where power sits’: Trump and world leaders joined by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google at G7 | Chiefs of the world’s leading frontier AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are attending the G7 in France this week.
Frontier AI risks, infrastructure and sovereignty are all expected to be discussed at the conference.
Compa... |
| 15.06.2026 | When deep research isn't enough for your business: Sakana AI launches 'ultra deep research' agent for 100+ page reports in 8 hours | Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI has officially launched its first commercial product, Sakana Marlin.
Billed as a "Virtual CSO" (Chief Strategy Officer), Marlin is an autonomous, B2B research agent that deliberately abandons the i... |
| 20.05.2026 | Mouro Capital: $400 Million Closed For Latest Fintech Investment Fund | Mouro Capital announced the close of its third fund at $400 million, backed by longstanding partner Banco Santander. The venture capital firm said the new fund brings its total commitments since launching in 2015 to more than $1 billion as ... |
| 19.05.2026 | Mouro Capital secures $400M first close for latest fund | Mouro Capital has announced the first close of its third fund, securing $400 million from Banco Santander, the firm’s longstanding strategic partner. The latest fundraising brings Mouro Capital’s total investment commitments to more than $1... |
| 08.05.2026 | How Sakana trained a 7B model to orchestrate GPT, Claude and Gemini LLMs | Every LangChain pipeline your team hardcodes starts breaking the moment the query distribution shifts — and it always shifts. That bottleneck is what Sakana AI set out to eliminate.
Researchers at Sakana AI have introduced the "RL Cond... |
| 15.04.2026 | Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks | Creating self-improving AI systems is an important step toward deploying agents in dynamic environments, especially in enterprise production environments, where tasks are not always predictable, nor consistent.
Current self-improving AI sys... |
| 29.03.2026 | Sakana AI: Investment Raised From Mitsubishi Electric To Advance Foundation Model Solutions | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has invested in Sakana AI, a company focused on developing next generation AI foundation models, as part of a strategic effort to expand its digital and AI capabilities.
The collaboration is... |
| 24.02.2026 | New agent framework matches human-engineered AI systems — and adds zero inference cost to deploy | Agents built on top of today's models often break with simple changes — a new library, a workflow modification — and require a human engineer to fix it. That's one of the most persistent challenges in deploying AI for the enterprise: creati... |
| 13.02.2026 | ET Now Global Business Summit 2026 to be Addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Senior Ministers and Global Leaders | Delhi, India
The ET Now Global Business Summit (GBS) 2026 goes live today, bringing together some of the most influential voices in business and policy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the summit, lending momentum to conversations... |
| 23.01.2026 | Google invests in Sakana AI to boost Gemini’s presence in Japan | - |
| 15.01.2026 | Why Sakana AI’s big win is a big deal for the future of enterprise agents | In an impressive feat, Japanese startup Sakana AI’s coding agent ALE-Agent recently secured first place in the AtCoder Heuristic Contest (AHC058), a complex coding competition that involves complicated optimization problems — and a more dif... |
| 05.01.2026 | ИИ впервые победил всех программистов-людей на соревновании AtCoder | Японский стартап Sakana AI объявил, что их агент ALE-Agent занял первое место на AtCoder Heuristic Contest 058, обойдя 804 участника-человека. Это первый случай, когда ИИ выигрывает крупное соревнование по оптимизационному программированию ... |
| 17.11.2025 | Sakana AI raises $135M at a $2.65B valuation to become Japan’s most valuable unicorn startup | Sakana AI’s rise has been fast, loud, and almost improbable. A company that didn’t exist two years ago is now Japan’s most valuable private startup, climbing to a $2.65 billion valuation after securing a fresh $135 million Series B, accordi... |
| 17.11.2025 | Japanese Sakana AI Raise $135M in Series B Funding | A Major Step for a Young Japanese AI Firm
Sakana AI raised $135 million in fresh capital. The raise closed on 17 November 2025. It took place through a large Series B round. The new valuation reached $2.65 billion. The company is based in T... |
| 17.11.2025 | Sakana AI lands $135M on $2.635B valuation to accelerate frontier research and applied AI in Japan
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| 17.11.2025 | Sakana AI: ¥20 Billion Series B Raised To Advance Sustainable AI In Japan | Tokyo-based research company Sakana AI has secured ¥20 billion (approximately $135 million) in Series B funding to accelerate its work on sustainable, efficiency-focused AI technology and expand deployment across major Japanese industries. ... |
| 17.11.2025 | This $2.6B Japanese A.I. Startup Exposes the Language Gap in Today’s LLMs | David Ha serves as CEO of Sakana AI. Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images
Like many other A.I. startups, Sakana AI is pursuing technology that can reason, self-improve and aid scientific research. But where the Tokyo-based ventur... |
| 21.10.2025 | Sakana AI, Japan’s answer to OpenAI, in talks to raise $100M in Funding at $2.5B valuation | Tokyo’s fast-rising AI startup Sakana AI is once again drawing global attention — and big money. The company, founded just two years ago by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones, is reportedly in talks with investors in Japan a... |
| 06.08.2025 | Vinod Khosla's AI Vision: From Economic Disruption to a Future of Universal Basic Services Though excited by AI's potential, Khosla acknowledged the complex challenges of job displacement, income ineq... | Legendary entrepreneur, investor, and technologist Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures was the first VC to invest in OpenAI in 2019, acquiring a 5 per cent stake for USD 50 million. In a recent conver... |
| 30.07.2025 | This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT | Image: Adobe/Limitless Visions
A new AI model from Singapore-based Sapient Intelligence is challenging the “bigger is better” mantra dominating today’s AI model development, and it’s doing it by copying a trick from the human brain or, at l... |
| 08.07.2025 | Японский стартап создал методику, которая позволяет нескольким ИИ-моделям совместно решать сложные задачи | Японский стартап Sakana AI разработал новый метод, который позволяет нескольким большим языковым моделям, таким как ChatGPT и Gemini, совместно работать над одной задачей. Командный подход, предложенный Sakana AI, показывает значительно луч... |
| 03.07.2025 | Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30% | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large... |
| 17.05.2025 | The Dawn of Continuous Thought Machines: A New Era in AI Reasoning | Artificial intelligence is on the brink of a revolution. A Tokyo-based startup, Sakana, is leading the charge with its groundbreaking architecture known as Continuous Thought Machines (CTMs). This innovation promises to reshape how AI model... |
| 12.05.2025 | Sakana introduces new AI architecture, ‘Continuous Thought Machines’ to make models reason with less guidance — like human brains | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup Sakana, co-founded by former top Google AI scientists including Llion... |
| 11.02.2025 | Нейронкам делегируют многое, но остаются сложности — LLM в научной деятельности и работе с кодом | Недавно мы провели обзор исследований, посвященных работе с большими языковыми моделями в ЦОД. Обсудили, почему происходят сбои при обучении моделей и применимость LLM в кибербезопасности.
Сегодня поговорим о том, какие задачи делегируют не... |
| 06.02.2025 | LLM в науке, тюнинг и регулирование систем ИИ | Продолжим рассказ о том, для чего можно использовать виртуальную инфраструктуру с GPU. Сегодня поговорим о том, какие ИИ пишут научные статьи, кто оптимизирует LLM с помощью других LLM, а также затронем регулирование систем ИИ. Мечта студен... |
| 04.02.2025 | ИИ отправился искать жизнь в компьютерных симуляциях | Поиск искусственной жизни (artificial life или A-life) — это область науки, исследующая модели живых систем и их эволюцию в контролируемых условиях, чаще всего — в компьютерных симуляциях. поиски эти раньше часто проводились вручную, а рисе... |
| 23.01.2025 | No retraining needed: Sakana’s new AI model changes how machines learn | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Researchers at Sakana AI, an AI research lab focusing on nature-inspired algorithms, have developed a self-adapti... |
| 02.01.2025 | Что ждет сферу ИИ в 2025 году. Прогноз журнала Forbes | Венчурный инвестор и контрибьютор журнала Forbes Роб Тейвз каждый год публикует свой прогноз событий, которые будут ждать сферу искусственного интеллекта в новом году. Ранее мы публиковали текст о том, как сбылись прогнозы на 2024, а теперь... |
| 20.12.2024 | Новая методика оптимизации LLM сокращает затраты памяти до 75% | Исследователи токийского стартапа Sakana AI разработали новую технологию, которая позволяет языковым моделям более эффективно использовать память. Это позволит предприятиям сократить расходы на создание приложений на основе больших языковых... |
| 13.12.2024 | New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs up to 75% | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Researchers at the Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI have developed a new technique that enables language models to u... |
| 06.12.2024 | Sakana AI’s CycleQD outperforms traditional fine-tuning methods for multi-skill language models | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Researchers at Sakana AI have developed a resource-efficient framework that can create hundreds of language model... |
| 18.11.2024 | Что, если не трансформеры: какие альтернативы главной архитектуре нейросетей у нас есть в 2024 году | Трансформеры сегодня – золотой стандарт нейросетей, и, особенно, больших языковых моделей. Они стали первой по-настоящему масштабируемой архитектурой, то есть с ними впервые стало возможно гарантировано наращивать перформанс моделей за счет... |
| 28.09.2024 | Исследователи создают ИИ-ученых, и это получается лучше, чем ожидалось | Исследователи разрабатывают искусственный интеллект, способный самостоятельно формулировать гипотезы, проводить эксперименты и писать научные статьи.
Разница между учеными, использующими ИИ, ИИ-учеными и «ИИ-учеными»
Есть множество примеров... |
| 11.09.2024 | The Surge of Southeast Asia's Clean Energy and Tech Investments | Southeast Asia is buzzing. A new wave of investments is reshaping the landscape. Clean energy and technology are at the forefront. Companies are racing to meet growing demands. The region is a fertile ground for innovation. Charge+, Singapo... |
| 09.09.2024 | Deals in brief: Charge+ secures Series A funding, Clime Capital invests in UGEP, eight China deals, and more | Charge+ secures USD 8 million in Series A funding
Charge+, Singapore’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging operator, has raised USD 8 million in a Series A round led by Trive Venture Capital, with TNB Aura leading the Series A2 extension... |
| 05.09.2024 | The AI Gold Rush: How Giants and Startups Are Shaping the Future | The artificial intelligence landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. The recent surge in funding for AI startups highlights a gold rush mentality, with tech giants like Nvidia leading the charge. The stakes are high, and the competition is... |
| 05.09.2024 | Deals in brief: Nvidia invests in Sakana AI and You.com, Zhipu AI secures new funding at RMB 20 billion valuation, six other China deals, and more | Nvidia deepens foothold in AI market with strategic backing of Sakana AI and You.com
Chip darling Nvidia continues to expand its foothold in the artificial intelligence space with major investments in AI companies.
On September 4, it was an... |
| 04.09.2024 | Sakana AI scores $100M to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic as ‘world class’ AI lab | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, ... |
| 04.09.2024 | The never-ending AI funding boom: Ilya Sutskever’s SSI raises $1B+ as Nvidia invests in two startups
Safe AI
Nature-inspired AI models
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Your vote of support is important ... | SSI, an artificial intelligence startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, has raised more than $1 billion in funding to support its research.
The company disclosed the investment today. The announcement came against the backdrop o... |
| 04.09.2024 | Nvidia’s Billion-Dollar A.I. Pitch: How the Chip Giant Ramps Up Startup Bets | Jensen Huang prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Oracle Park on Sept. 03, 2024 in San Francisco. Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images
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| 14.08.2024 | Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime | Enlarge
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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 lang... |
| 13.08.2024 | Sakana AI’s ‘AI Scientist’ conducts research autonomously, challenging scientific norms | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Sakana AI, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia,... |
| 31.07.2024 | Database startup ClickHouse Announces PeerDB Acquistion | By Aldohn Domingo
Published Jul 31, 2024 9:10AM EDT
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ClickHouse, a big-name database startup, has reportedly purchased PeerDB to improve ... |
| 27.07.2024 | The Rise of AI in Robotics and Art: A New Era of Innovation | In the bustling world of technology, two stories stand out. One is about a robot that delivers packages. The other breathes life into ancient art. Both are driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Both are reshaping their fields. Let’s dive ... |
| 22.07.2024 | Sakana AI drops image models to generate Japan’s traditional ukiyo-e artwork | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Remember Sakana AI? Almost a year ago, the Tokyo-based startup made a striking appearance on the AI scene with it... |
| 17.06.2024 | What is Sakana AI and why is everyone comparing it to OpenAI? | Source: Sakana AI article-article-body
Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI may achieve unicorn status in less than a year after its founding. Here’s what you need to know about the company, its former Google founders, and why it’s being called... |
| 26.03.2024 | Sakana AI’s evolutionary algorithm discovers new architectures for generative models | Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here.
A new technique developed by much-hyped Tokyo, Japan sta... |
| 16.01.2024 | Tokyo startup Sakana AI lands $30M to forge new path with compact AI models | Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by two notable ex-Google engineers, announced today that it has raised $30 million in seed funding from high-profile technology investors. The young company, founded just l... |
| 16.01.2024 | Sakana AI raises $30M to develop small, collaborative AI models
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One click below supports our mission to provide free, d... | Sakana AI, an artificial intelligence startup based in Tokyo, Japan that takes inspiration from the way that animals such as fish and birds work together, today announced it has raised $30 million in seed funding to build smaller and more a... |
| 18.08.2023 | What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a Transformer paper coauthor | Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is in a rapid state of evolution these days, not only with OpenAI, Meta, and Google compe... |
| 17.08.2023 | AI researchers left Google to launch Sakana AI, a generative AI startup developing adaptable AI models based on nature-inspired intelligence | Llion Jones, who was hailed as the “Godfather of Transformers,” dedicated nearly 12 years to Google. He played a key role in crafting the pivotal Transformers research paper, a cornerstone in contemporary generative AI.
Jones was part of a... |
| - | Sakana AI | “We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.” |
