SAKANA AI RAISES $30M SEED

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Sakana.ai is building a world-class research lab in Tokyo to build smaller and more efficient foundation models. The company was founded by ex-Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones, who are responsible for breakthroughs such as Transformers, World Models, and LoRA. It has raised a 30m seed round from Brandon Reeves at Lux Capital and Jon Chu at Khosla Ventures to pioneer this effort and put Tokyo on the AI map.