Sakana AI
$2.65B
Reported valuation
Japan's first AI unicorn, co-founded by a Transformer co-author; nature-inspired model merging and AI for science, betting on sample efficiency over raw compute.
- Founded
- 2023
- Research area
- General-purpose models — Sovereign AI
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
Founders
- David Ha — previously Google, Stability AI, U. Tokyo, Goldman Sachs
- Ren Ito — previously Stability AI, Mercari
- Llion Jones — previously Google