Sakana AI · They sell orchestration over open weights as a route to frontier scores at lower cost — the routing layer above the model, priced per token like a model, which is where the buy-versus-route decision actually gets settled.

Sell a multi-agent orchestration layer — a pool of open-weight and specialist models, routed automatically — behind one OpenAI-compatible API, priced per token like a single model; plus a Japanese-specialised LLM (Namazu), a research assistant (Marlin) and a consumer chat app.

Sector

Foundation models

Stage

Series B

On the roster since

15 Sept 2026