Sakana AI announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Google following its Series B round, and that Google is also making a financial investment in the company to further strengthen the relationship.
The company framed the partnership as a signal of Google’s confidence in Sakana AI’s technical depth and its mission to advance AI in Japan. Sakana AI said the collaboration is designed to help address complex industrial and scientific challenges while raising the bar for AI product quality and reliability. The company added that it expects the partnership to support the implementation of reliable AI solutions in environments where performance, safety, and trust are critical.
Sakana AI said the partnership aims to combine Google’s global scale, infrastructure, and product ecosystem with Sakana AI’s agile research and development capabilities and its deep connection to Japan’s AI market. The company said it views the relationship as a way to help advance Japan’s broader AI ecosystem and accelerate the adoption of reliable AI by organizations across the country.
As part of the collaboration, Sakana AI said it will leverage Google’s state-of-the-art models, including Gemini and Gemma, to build and enhance its technologies and products. The company pointed to its existing work, including “The AI Scientist” and its “ALE-Agent,” as demonstrations of how it can utilize these model families, and said the partnership will allow it to push further into areas such as automated scientific discovery and agentic AI. Sakana AI said it plans to integrate Google’s model ecosystem more deeply into its research efforts, with the goal of extending the limits of frontier model capabilities and translating those advances into practical systems.
Sakana AI also said it will contribute to the product quality front by providing direct feedback to Google’s AI ecosystem, drawing on technical insights and real-world learnings from serving users. The company indicated that this feedback loop is intended to support continuous improvement across reliability, usability, and deployment readiness, particularly as models and developer tools are applied in demanding enterprise settings.
In addition, Sakana AI said it expects the partnership to support the deployment of reliable AI in mission-critical industries, with a focus on regulated sectors that require strong security controls and data sovereignty. The company highlighted financial institutions and government organizations as examples of customers that often require the highest levels of protection, compliance, and control over where data is stored and processed. Sakana AI said it plans to deploy solutions using Google’s platform to help promote AI adoption in these environments, positioning the collaboration as a path to broaden responsible use cases where requirements are strict and operational risk is high.
Sakana AI did not disclose the size of Google’s investment in the announcement, but described the funding as a step that reinforces the partnership and aligns incentives around long term collaboration. The company also used the announcement to signal ongoing hiring interest, directing readers to learn more about joining Sakana AI.
