Tokyo-based artificial intelligence company Fish Eye Raised over $100 million in Series A funding round NVIDIA.
This funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures and Lux CapitalSakana AI announced on Wednesday (September 4th) that it will be joined by NVIDIA. Blog Post.
According to the article, Sakana AI aims to build a “world-class AI lab” in Japan to help address the challenges facing Japan and its allies, including population decline, declining competitiveness, and rising geopolitical tensions.
“With our Series A funding, we will continue to invest in our people and build one of the most talented AI companies,” Sakana AI said in a post. “We will also continue to invest heavily in infrastructure development, which is critical to our mission of advancing nature-inspired, sustainable, and energy-efficient AI technologies.”
According to the article, Sakana AI and Nvidia’s collaboration will focus on building research, infrastructure and the AI community in Japan.
The two companies aim to devise new methods for efficiently developing foundational models, giving Japan a competitive advantage in AI development using NVIDIA’s latest technology. Develop According to the post, the company will contribute to Japan’s AI community through events, hackathons, and university outreach.
“Nations are adopting sovereign AI to capture and codify their data, culture and language through their own large-scale language models,” the Nvidia founder and CEO said. Jensen Huang “By leveraging NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to develop cutting-edge foundational models to automate and speed up scientific discovery, the Sakana AI team is accelerating the democratization of AI in Japan,” the post read.
Sakana AI introduced several AI models for Japanese speakers this year, Bloomberg reported. Reported Wednesday.
of AI Startups It will be released from stealth in August 2023. Leon Jonesis one of eight Google researchers credited with introducing the foundational architecture of Transformer Neural Networks, the research that underpins and informs nearly all of today’s AI models.
Jones was quoted as saying: at that time He said he didn’t want Sakanai to be “just a company with a law degree.”
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