Company

Sakana AI

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan

Founded2023

Tokyo-based Sakana AI develops ways for AI models to work together and improve. It has used evolutionary search to combine existing models^[1] and co-developed The AI Scientist, which proposes and runs experiments.^[2] Its Fugu system coordinates multiple models to tackle a single task.^[3]

Current members 4

David Ha Co-founder and CEO Llion Jones Co-founder and CTO Ren Ito Co-founder and Chairman Jürgen Schmidhuber Chief Scientific Advisor

Mentioned in updates 1

MoveJürgen Schmidhuber joins Sakana AI as chief scientific advisor

The LSTM co-creator will advise Sakana AI and help guide its new Recursive Self-Improvement Lab while retaining his existing positions.

September 24, 2026

References

Evolving New Foundation Modelssakana.ai
Sakana describes using evolutionary search to find effective ways of combining existing models.
The AI Scientistsakana.ai
Sakana and its academic collaborators present a system that proposes research ideas, writes code, and runs experiments.
Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2sakana.ai
Sakana explains how Fugu assigns work to different models and coordinates them within one system.

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