IT之家 November 9 news: Japanese AI unicorn Sakana AI announced today thatthe company is developing its first mobile application, the "Sakana AI App" (tentative name)and is currently recruiting Beta test users.
Sakana AI CEO David Ha said the app will represent a new direction for the company.
According to IT之家, Sakana AI is an AI startup headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, co-founded by former Google research scientist David Ha, former Stability AI executive Ren Ito, and Llion Jones, co-author of the Transformer architecture paper "Attention Is All You Need".
The company is dedicated to developing AI based on natural principles, using an "evolutionary model merge" technique that mimics natural selection mechanisms to process language and image data, in order to reduce computing costs and improve model performance.
In less than a year after its founding, Sakana AI became Japan's fastest-growing AI unicorn, with a valuation exceeding 1 billion USD as of 2024 (IT之家 note: approximately 6.68 billion RMB at the current exchange rate).