Sakana AI Stock
| Valuation | $2.7B1 |
| Valuation Date | Nov 17, 2025 |
| Implied Valuation | $1.82B |
| Last Price | $2.02 |
| 52-Week High | $3.00 |
| 52-Week Low | $1.93 |
| YTD Return | -19.20% |
| 1-Year Return | -32.67% |
| 3-Year Return | n/a |
| Total Funding | $412M1 |
| Latest Round Amount | $200M1 |
| Latest Round | Series B |
| Funding Rounds | 3 |
| IPO Status | Unknown |
| Expected IPO Date | n/a |
| Revenue | n/a |
| Revenue Type | n/a |
| P/S Ratio | n/a |
About Sakana AI
Sakana AI is a Japanese artificial intelligence company that builds foundation models using nature-inspired methods such as evolutionary computation and collective intelligence. Its research includes systems like The AI Scientist, which automates parts of the research process, Evolutionary Model Merge and the Namazu family of large language models built for the Japanese language. The company makes money by working with large enterprises and the public sector in Japan, deploying its models for use cases across finance, manufacturing and government. Sakana AI was founded in 2023 by David Ha, Llion Jones and Ren Ito, and it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Sakana AI Teams With NVIDIA to Advance Open Model Innovation from Japan
Sakana AI announced it will integrate NVIDIA Nemotron open models into Sakana Fugu, its multi-agent orchestration platform, to add specialized coding and tool-calling capabilities within a single API.
Japan's 'Sakana Fugu' multiagent AI scores well against Fable 5, GPT 5.5
Sakana AI publicly released Sakana Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration service that coordinates several large language models through one OpenAI-compatible API.
Sakana achieves frontier performance with new Fugu multi-model orchestration system
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration API that routes tasks across a pool of frontier models instead of relying on a single monolithic model.
Sakana Marlin: Your Virtual CSO
Sakana AI launched Sakana Marlin, its first commercial product — an autonomous research agent that produces long-form strategy reports from a single research topic.
Sakana AI launches Marlin autonomous research agent for 100+ page reports
Sakana AI launched Sakana Marlin, its first commercial product, an autonomous research agent that runs multi-hour reasoning loops to produce deeply cited strategy reports for enterprise customers.
Mitsubishi Electric Invests in AI Startup Sakana AI
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has invested in Sakana AI Inc., a Japan-based AI startup that develops next‑generation AI-foundation model...
Sakana AI CEO sees Japan's future in blend of global, local strengths
CEO David Ha told Nikkei that Japan should blend domestic AI innovation with global technology, and outlined finance and public-sector expansion plans backed by Google.
Datadog and Sakana AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance AI Innovation and Observability for Enterprises
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Citi Makes Strategic Investment in Sakana AI To Advance Innovation in Financial Services
Citigroup made a strategic investment in Sakana AI through its Markets Strategic Investments unit, marking Citi's first such investment in a Japanese company to advance AI innovation in financial serv...
Sakana AI Announces Strategic Partnership with Google
Sakana AI announced a strategic partnership with Google in January 2026, including a financial investment from Google to strengthen collaboration on Gemini and Gemma models and mission-critical AI dep...
Google invests in Japan unicorn Sakana AI, forms strategic partnership
Sakana AI announced financial backing from Google and a strategic partnership to use Google's Gemini large language models in product development while continuing its own model research.
Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan
Sakana AI closed a Series B round valuing the Tokyo-based AI lab at $2.65 billion post-money to expand enterprise and government deployments in Japan.
Nvidia-Backed Sakana AI to Build ‘World-Class AI Lab' in Japan
Tokyo-based artificial intelligence firm Sakana AI raised over $100 million in a Series A funding round and formed a collaboration with Nvidia. The funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates, ...