Sakana AI

Sakana AI, a startup in Tokyo, Japan, has introduced two new image generation models - Evo-Ukiyoe and Evo-Nishikie. The pictures are from Sakana AI official. These two models can be found on the Hugging Face platform. Their main purpose is to generate Ukiyo-e style artworks through text or image prompts. As we all know, Ukiyo-e is a traditional art form popular in Japan from the 17th to the 19th century, depicting many themes such as historical scenes, natural scenery and sumo wrestlers. Sakana AI has launched two new image generation models - Evo-Ukiyoe and Evo-Nishikie. The pictures are from Sakana AI official. These two models can be found on the Hugging Face platform. Their main purpose is to generate Ukiyo-e style artworks through text or image prompts. As we all know, Ukiyo-e is a traditional art form popular in Japan from the 17th to the 19th century, depicting many themes such as historical scenes, natural scenery and sumo wrestlers

Japanese generative AI startup Sakana AI is about to receive a major new investment that will value the company at about 180 billion yen (about 8.3 billion yuan), the Asahi Shimbun reported on Saturday. Driven by the global AI investment wave, this means that a new "unicorn" company will be born in Japan. A "unicorn" is an unlisted company with a valuation of more than $1 billion (about 7.276 billion yuan). According to the report, in July last year, Google's artificial intelligence researchers set up Sakana AI in Tokyo....