Sakana Ships a Namazu API Update as Grok Imagine Pushes Multimodal

Japan's Sakana AI opened its updated Namazu LLM API while xAI promoted Grok Imagine's text-to-image capabilities.

Sakana AI announced the public release of its Namazu API alongside an update to the underlying large language model, drawing solid engagement in its home market. The launch is a reminder that the frontier is not exclusively an American concern — well-funded international labs are shipping production APIs, and Sakana in particular has built a reputation for unconventional, efficiency-minded research.

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