Sakana AI to Train Sawara, Its First Foundation Model Built From Scratch

Sakana AI is moving from merging open models to training its own foundation model from scratch, with pretraining of Sawara Small set to begin next month.

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2026-11-13 05:16 · AlphaSignal
Sakana AI Builds Sawara, Its First Foundation Model From Scratch

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