{"id":400879,"date":"2026-03-24T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/400879\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:09:10","slug":"sakana-ai-enters-chatbot-race-with-japan-tailored-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/400879\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakana AI enters chatbot race with Japan-tailored model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260324 Sakana AI\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">\u00a0In this photo illustration, Sakana AI&#8217;s logo is displayed on a smartphone screen in Canada on Nov. 17, 2025. The Japanese startup&#8217;s launch of its first consumer-facing chatbot comes as artificial intelligence developers\u00a0tailor global foundation models to local contexts. \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s Sakana AI has launched its first consumer-facing chatbot, marking a shift from being a corporate-focused artificial intelligence startup toward becoming a provider of general services, as competition intensifies to localize generative AI for specific markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0In this photo illustration, Sakana AI&#8217;s logo is displayed on a smartphone screen in Canada on Nov. 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,1600,18,181915,19,17,181916,18980,4079,103870,82],"class_list":["post-400879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatbot","tag-eire","tag-enters","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan-tailored","tag-model","tag-race","tag-sakana","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116282665590358262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}