Sakana AI to Pretrain Its Own Model Sawara from Scratch, Open-Source Planned

Sakana AI told ITmedia it will shift from fine-tuning open-source models to pretraining its own model 'Sakana Sawara' from scratch, first revealed by chief scientist Takuya Akiba at an October seminar. A smaller version starts in December, with open-sourcing planned for spring 2027.

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