# Sakana AI — Introducing Sakana AI's Frontier Intelligence Group (FIG)

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-17T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://sakana.ai/frontier-intelligence-group
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11889-introducing-sakana-ai-s-frontier-intelligence-group-fig
- Subject: Sakana models

Sakana AI announced the formation of the Frontier Intelligence Group (FIG), an internal collective focused on long-term, speculative research into alternative paradigms for artificial intelligence, challenging the current scaling approach.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/frontier-intelligence-group:

> Today we are announcing the existence of FIG, a collective that has been growing inside the company.

---

Record: https://forck.live/items/11889-introducing-sakana-ai-s-frontier-intelligence-group-fig
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md