Sakana AI has secured a $30 million seed funding round led by Lux Capital, aimed at advancing generative AI research in Japan.

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We are excited to announce a $30 million seed funding round for Sakana AI, an innovative generative AI research lab based in Tokyo, Japan. This funding round, led by Lux Capital, has also seen participation from prominent investors including Khosla Ventures, major Japanese corporations like NTT Group, and influential angel investors such as Jeff Dean, the AI lead at Google, Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, and Alexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI.

Founded by David Ha (CEO) and Llion Jones (CTO), Sakana AI aims to revolutionize AI through research innovations such as evolutionary methods and collective intelligence, creating nature-inspired foundation AI models that promise to be more adaptive and resource-efficient.

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