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| Fact | Foundation modelsInception LabsRemove | Foundation modelsSakana AIRemove |
|---|---|---|
| Mark | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Sector | Foundation models | Foundation models |
| What they do | Diffusion language models that write a whole answer at once, sold by API. | A Tokyo lab selling routed multi-model access and Japanese-language models. |
| Stage | Not on file | Series B |
| Open roles | 0 | 0 |
| Tracked since | September 2026 | September 2026 |
| Why we track it | A different inference architecture — diffusion rather than autoregression — which changes the latency and cost-per-task arithmetic for any product that calls a model many times inside a single user interaction. | 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. |
| Same test | These have not been through the same test. The facts above are from their own pages. | |
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