Locus, an automated AI research system developed by Sakana AI, achieves state-of-the-art results on PostTrainBench and surpasses the human post-trained Qwen3 1.7B model in the extended PostTrainBench+…
A benchmarking study of autonomous AI research systems found that FARS benchmark papers significantly outperform four leading AI Scientist frameworks, achieving mean scores of 2.14–2.47 on a 1–5 scale…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI company, has released four products in rapid succession since March 2026, including Sakana Chat, Sakana Marlin, Sakana Fugu, and Sakana Translate. Sota Omura, head of produ…
Sakana AI released Fugu-Cyber, a cybersecurity-specialized orchestration model that reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, surpassing reported scores for frontier models like GPT-5.5-Cyber …
Jepang memperluas kemitraan kecerdasan buatan dengan India, Prancis, dan Malaysia, serta menyiapkan dialog serupa dengan Inggris dan Brasil, untuk mengurangi ketergantungan pada perusahaan AI besar Am…
Sakana AI released Fugu Ultra v1.1, an AI model router that it claims achieves gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0 and now outperforms Fable 5 without including it in the routing pool. The update adds…
Artificial intelligence has already saturated academia, with 88% of UK students using generative AI for assessments in 2025, up from 53% the prior year, according to the Higher Education Policy Instit…
Sakana AI released Fugu-Ultra v1.1 on July 24, 2026, the latest iteration of its open-source Fugu model family, announced via an X post that gathered 31 likes, 6 retweets, and 1,857 views in its first…
Sakana AI announced Fugu-Ultra v1.1, an upgraded orchestration engine that delivers performance gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0 and beats leading models like Fable 5 in complex coding and reasonin…
Khosla Ventures, the first outside investor in OpenAI, is in talks to raise up to $5.5 billion across a new set of funds, according to Bloomberg. The record raise would allocate about $1 billion for s…
Researchers at Sakana AI introduced UnMaskFork (UMF), a test-time scaling method that enables multiple masked diffusion language models to collaborate on a single answer, outperforming existing method…
Japan is testing whether artificial intelligence can offset the economic burden of its ageing population, with projects like Marunouchi Heat Supply Company using AI to manage infrastructure and preser…
Sakana AI released Fugu-Cyber, a new orchestration model for cybersecurity that achieves state-of-the-art performance with an 86.9% success rate on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, comparable to leadi…
A nonprofit called Current AI, backed by France, DeepMind, Salesforce, and the Ford and MacArthur foundations with over $400 million in commitments, launched at France's AI Action Summit in early 2025…
Sakana AI's Error Diffusion method trains dual-stream excitatory/inhibitory networks that obey Dale's principle without backpropagation, achieving 96.7% accuracy on MNIST and 61.7% on CIFAR-10. The ap…
Sakana AI has integrated Nvidia's open-source Nemotron models into its Fugu orchestrator, aiming to rival Frontier systems through collective intelligence. The partnership seeks to demonstrate that op…
Sakana AI is integrating Nvidia's open-source Nemotron models into its Fugu orchestrator, which dynamically combines multiple language models for specific tasks, arguing that open models can rival fro…
NVIDIA announced that Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, data and libraries. Instit…
Sakana AI is teaming with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA's open model stack, including Nemotron, into Sakana Fugu, Sakana AI's multi-agent orchestration system, aiming to advance open model innovation fro…
Researchers from IT University of Copenhagen, Sakana AI, and Autodesk have developed a system of hundreds of simple cubic bricks that each run identical local neural networks and communicate only with…