{"id":46150,"date":"2025-11-18T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=46150"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:34:26","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e6%9c%80%e5%a4%a7%e7%8b%ac%e8%a7%92%e5%85%bd%e8%af%9e%e7%94%9f%ef%bc%9asakana-ai-%e4%bb%a5%e7%ba%a6-4000-%e4%ba%bf%e6%97%a5%e5%85%83%e4%bc%b0%e5%80%bc%e5%ae%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/46150.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan's largest unicorn was born: Sakana AI completed the B round of financing with an estimated 40 billion yen valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-text-wrapper\" data-ries-data-process=\"138\" data-group-id=\"group-138\">November 18th.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Japan<\/a>Artificial Intelligence Startups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/sakana\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Sakana<\/a> AI THE LOCAL TIME ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE COMPANY ' S POST-INVESTMENT VALUATION WAS ESTIMATED AT 40 BILLION YEN (NOTE: THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE IS APPROXIMATELY 183.51 BILLION YUAN)<strong>IN ROUND B<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>It raised about 20 billion yen<\/strong>(The current exchange rate is approximately RMB 918 million), with which the cumulative amount of financing has increased to approximately Yen 52 billion (the current exchange rate is about RMB 2,386 million)\u3002<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-text-wrapper\" data-ries-data-process=\"139\" data-group-id=\"group-139\">According to Japan Asia, this round of financing also allowed Sakana AI\u00a0<strong>A valuation of non-market start-ups in Japan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46151\" title=\"1ed57902j00t5x6sh002od000ku00dcm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1ed57902j00t5x6sh002od000ku00dcm.jpg\" alt=\"1ed57902j00t5x6sh002od000ku00dcm\" width=\"750\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-text-wrapper\" data-ries-data-process=\"140\" data-group-id=\"group-140\">Sakana AI stated that, given the actual development of the industry in Japan, the enterprise would<strong>Continuation of previous efficient and sustainable development paths<\/strong>The main focus is on more efficient use of funds, such as after-training\u3002<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-text-wrapper\" data-ries-data-process=\"141\" data-group-id=\"group-141\">THE ENTERPRISE PLANS TO DEVELOP A BASIC MODEL FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE JAPANESE MARKET, TO EXPAND THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AI TECHNOLOGY IN CORE INDUSTRIES IN JAPAN AND TO ACCELERATE THE PACE OF GLOBAL EXPANSION\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 18, according to news, the Japanese artificial intelligence start-up company Sakana AI announced yesterday ' s local time that the company had raised about 20 billion yen (approximately 918 billion yuan) in the B round of financing with a post-investment valuation of about 40 billion yen (note: the current exchange rate is approximately 183.51 billion yuan yuan), and that its cumulative financing had increased to about 52 billion yen (the current exchange rate is about 2,386 billion yuan yuan). According to IJA, this round of financing also allowed Sakana AI to establish a valuation record for non-market start-ups in Japan. Sakana AI states that, given the actual development of the industry in Japan, the enterprise will continue its previous efficient and sustainable development<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3683,226,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-46150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-sakana","tag-226","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46150"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=46150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}