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Sakana AI held a seminar at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo, announcing the launch of its self-developed pretrained language model series "Sakana Sawara (provisional name)", with the first model, Sawara Small (provisional name), planned for release in spring 2027. Chief Scientific Advisor Jürgen Schmidhuber delivered a keynote speech and held a conversation with CEO David Ha; the event attracted more than 400 attendees from across Japan. Sakana AI frames AI sovereignty around three pillars: pretraining, post-training, and orchestration, with the latter two corresponding to Sakana Namazu and Sakana Fugu, respectively. The series is currently still in its launch phase, and no further development progress has been disclosed.
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Sakana AI held a workshop at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo, announcing the launch of its in-house pretrained language model series "Sakana Sawara (tentative name)," with the first model, Sawara Small (tentative name), planned for release in spring 2027. Chief Scientific Advisor Jürgen Schmidhuber gave a keynote speech and held a conversation with CEO David Ha; the event attracted more than 400 attendees from across Japan. Sakana AI frames AI sovereignty around three pillars: pretraining, post-training, and orchestration, with the latter two corresponding to Sakana Namazu and Sakana Fugu, respectively.
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