Sakana AI

Sakana AI reports completing a roughly six-month lending-agent proof of concept with MUFG involving about 100 participants and 30 core members; employees reviewed and amended AI lending drafts, with validation at selected sites and further live-case rollout planned.

Sakana AI is deploying products such as Sakana Fugu, Marlin and Namazu and is hiring forward-deployed engineers to move enterprise deployments from PoC to company-wide adoption.

Sakana AI is deploying products such as Sakana Fugu, Marlin and Namazu and is hiring forward-deployed engineers to move enterprise deployments from PoC to company-wide adoption.

Sakana AI published Evolutionary Model Merge, using evolutionary search to optimize combinations of existing models, with an official implementation and research paper. This model-composition method is independent of existing AI Scientist and recursive self-improvement lab evidence.

Sakana AI established a Recursive Self-Improvement Lab and highlights research including the AI Scientist and open-ended self-improvement systems, reflecting highly differentiated frontier research.

Sakana AI established a Recursive Self-Improvement Lab and highlights research including the AI Scientist and open-ended self-improvement systems, reflecting highly differentiated frontier research.

Sakana AI's corporate information identifies Research, Applied, Product and Corporate functions, with finance, legal, HR and operations supporting the organization. It names Ai Fujiki as CFO and gives her investment-banking background and July 2025 entry to the company. These governance and operating functions are distinct from the existing headcount/funding/Applied-Team observation; they do not establish financial runway or employee experience.

Sakana AI reports roughly 150 employees, a completed Series B, enterprise partnerships and an Applied Team delivering AI systems into finance, defense and public-sector environments.

Sakana AI reports roughly 150 employees, a completed Series B, enterprise partnerships and an Applied Team delivering AI systems into finance, defense and public-sector environments.

Sakana released ShinkaEvolve as an Apache-2.0 open-source program evolution framework that archives evaluated programs, generates candidates and evaluates fitness across multiple domains. Its extensible code and evaluation loop support portable program optimization and research engineering skills.

Open roles span LLM development, recursive self-improvement, forward-deployed engineering, product engineering, infrastructure reliability and applied research, indicating broad transferable frontier AI skills.

Open roles span LLM development, recursive self-improvement, forward-deployed engineering, product engineering, infrastructure reliability and applied research, indicating broad transferable frontier AI skills.