Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.
Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.
Try it: https://t.co/hhO6qTawgb 🐡
Sakana has always been about proving that you get to deeper, more durable usefulness by scaling smarter, not louder. Marlin is the first real glimpse of that: an eight‑hour, ultra‑deep research agent that behaves more like a routed team of specialists than a single chatbot, quietly making the case that the next frontier isn’t just bigger models, or bigger models that will be easily discontinued, but better and adaptive orchestration layer that are multi-model/multi-agent while keeping the frontier performance.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
We didn’t just start working on Recursive Self-Improvement yesterday. We have been methodically shipping the foundations for two years.
To execute the next phase of this mission, we are seeking a select group of distinguished Frontier Research Scientists and Core Engineers.
We are looking for recognized innovators whose past work has already demonstrated global impact and fundamentally altered the AI/ML ecosystem. If you have a proven track record at the frontier, but find yourself entirely unsatisfied with the status quo of brute-force scaling, this is your call.
If you are ready to break away from standard benchmarking and build the self-improving future, apply below.
https://t.co/DHAYaFbxlJ
Join us in Tokyo.
Today, we are officially launching the Sakana AI RSI Lab in Tokyo to build open-ended, adaptive AI systems that collectively self-improve. I am incredibly proud of our team’s work over the past 2 years, shipping the breakthrough research that laid the foundations for this moment.
Building in Japan provides us with the ultimate design constraint. Just like Japan’s historical dominance in manufacturing was achieved by fundamentally redesigning the factory floor to do more with less, we are focused on compute-efficiency.
We are not building the most compute-hungry self-improvement engine. We are building the most sample-efficient one.
If you are entirely unsatisfied with the brute-force status quo and ready to build the self-improving future in Japan, come join us.
Today @MeckaAI is announcing $60M in funding to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI
This raise will allow us to scale our data infrastructure, invest into new verticals, and deploy robots into the real world
Agents like Claude Code, Codex can sustain hundreds of tool calls and ace coding. So we had 30 of them run a real prior-auth, utilization management and care management case end to end. Best agent still fails 72% of U.S. healthcare workflows
This is CHI (χ)-Bench. 🧵
1/🧵Can AI agents automate U.S. healthcare workflows end to end given just clinician & insurer apps and operations, medical policy library? Introducing CHI-Bench: 75 long-horizon realistic healthcare workflows × 30 frontier agents. Best agent solves only 28% #AIinHealthcare 👇