Google Alums Go Big in Japan With Months-Old Startup Sakana AI

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup founded by former Google researchers, is capitalizing on a surge in interest among Japanese firms seeking to catch up in artificial intelligence.

Japan has given an outsized welcome to the nine-month-old venture, led by David Ha, who helped set up the Google Brain research team in Tokyo, and Llion Jones, one of the authors of the seminal paperthat launched the current AI wave.

David Ha

Source: Sakana AI

The 10-person startup has won a government grant of supercomputer time and is exploring projects with heavyweights Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and Sony Group Corp. to build ...