Sakana AI
Sakana AI, founded in 2023 by David Ha, Llion Jones and Ren Ito, researches evolution- and collective-intelligence-based AI. Its work includes The AI Scientist, the Darwin Gödel Machine, multi-agent orchestration models and Namazu LLMs for Japan. It earns revenue from enterprise and public-sector AI solution contracts (e.g., MUFG, Daiwa Securities) and from user-facing products such as Sakana Chat, Marlin and Fugu. It raised a Series B in Nov 2025 at about a $2.6B valuation (reported $135M–$200M), followed by strategic investments from Google (Jan 2026), Citi (Feb 2026) and Mitsubishi Electric (Mar 2026). Total funding is reported at roughly $379M.
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