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Sakana AI
Nature-inspired methods such as evolutionary model merging and the AI Scientist.
| Type | Frontier labs |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | David Ha, Llion Jones, Ren Ito |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Website | sakana.ai |
Sakana AI research
56 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with Sakana AI (Japan) in the last 12 months. The most cited:
- Towards end-to-end automation of AI research25 Mar 2026 · 116 citations
- ReXVQA: A Large-scale Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Generalist Chest X-ray Understanding1 Dec 2025 · 5 citations
- Fog computing and internet of things technology for throughput and latency in the smart sensor network12 Dec 2025 · 3 citations
- World models, artificial general intelligence and the hard problems of life–mind continuity: toward a unified understanding of natural and artificial intelligence14 May 2026 · 2 citations
- Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs10 Jul 2026 · 1 citations
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution Sakana AI (Japan), read 2 Nov 2026.
Sakana AI models
Latest releases
- SakanaAI/fwpkm-l12-gdn-pkm6-fwpkm2_1027 Jul 2026
- SakanaAI/fwpkm-l12-gdn_fa-pkm6-fwpkm2_10-pswa0.927 Jul 2026
- SakanaAI/fwpkm-l12-gdn_swa-pkm6-fwpkm2_1027 Jul 2026
- SakanaAI/fwpkm-l12-gdn_swa-pkm2_6_1027 Jul 2026
- SakanaAI/fwpkm-l12-gdn_fa-pkm2_6_1027 Jul 2026
- SakanaAI/fwpkm-l12-gdn-pkm2_6_1027 Jul 2026
Most downloaded
- SakanaAI/TinySwallow-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF2,068 downloads (30 days)
- SakanaAI/TinySwallow-1.5B-Instruct1,690 downloads (30 days)
- SakanaAI/TinySwallow-1.5B751 downloads (30 days)
- SakanaAI/Metom342 downloads (30 days)
- SakanaAI/kame247 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation SakanaAI, read 2 Nov 2026.
Sakana AI: quick answers
Who founded Sakana AI?
Sakana AI was founded in 2023 by David Ha, Llion Jones, Ren Ito.
People at Sakana AI
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