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IT Home reported on November 9 that Sakana AI, a Japanese AI unicorn, announced today that it is developing its first mobile application, provisionally named “Sakana AI App,” and is currently recruiting beta testers.
Sakana AI CEO David Ha said the app would represent a new direction for the company.
According to IT Home, Sakana AI is an AI startup based in Tokyo, Japan, co-founded by former Google research scientist David Ha, former Stability AI executive Ren Ito, and Llion Jones, a co-author of the Transformer architecture paper “Attention Is All You Need.”
The company is committed to developing AI based on principles found in nature. It uses an “evolutionary model merging” technique that mimics natural selection to process language and image data, with the aim of reducing computational costs and improving model performance.
Sakana AI became Japan’s fastest-growing AI unicorn less than a year after its founding. As of 2024, it was valued at more than US$1 billion (IT Home note: approximately 6.68 billion yuan at the current exchange rate).