Other investors are Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Lux Capital.
In January, Sakana raised $31 million from NTT, Sony, Khosla and others.
“The team at Sakana is helping spur the democratisation of AI in Japan by developing cutting-edge foundation models to automate and speed scientific discovery with Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform,” said Jensen Huang.
Sakana, which means ‘obstacle in English, says that its research is focussed on “applying nature-inspired ideas, such as evolution and collective intelligence, to create new foundation models. We are currently developing technology that makes use of evolution with the goal of automating the development of foundation models with particular abilities suitable for user-specified application domains. Our goal isn’t to just train any particular individual model. We want to create the machinery to automatically generate foundation models for us!”
Sakana has published a report on its work at: Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes.
