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Sakana AI

sakana.ai

Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research company building recursive self-improvement systems and world models, with an explicit physical AI / robotics framing.

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HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Status
private

Overview

Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research company building recursive self-improvement systems and world models, with an explicit physical AI / robotics framing. Tracked here after its Sep 24 2026 announcement that Jurgen Schmidhuber joined as Chief Scientific Advisor for the RSI Lab.

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Key facts

Jurgen Schmidhuber joins as Chief Scientific Advisor (Sep 2026)

Company-stated (company-stated): on Sep 24 2026 Sakana AI announced Jurgen Schmidhuber is joining as Chief Scientific Advisor alongside his current positions, and will help guide the Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab in Tokyo. Framing: physical AI powered by World Models, bridging Japan's neural-net history and robotics. Company press

RSI Lab / World Models physical AI aim (company-stated)

Company-stated (company-stated): Schmidhuber will help steer Sakana's RSI Lab toward compounding scientific discovery and Sakana's first World Models for systems that research, rewrite their own code, and interact with the physical world. RSI Lab previously announced separately at sakana.ai/rsi-lab. Company ambition, not a shipped product

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Safety record

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