# Sakana AI — Sakana AI Wins Award at US-Japan Competition for Defense Innovation

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2025-03-23T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: funding-company-news
- Subject: Sakana models
- Source: https://sakana.ai/defense-challenge-2025
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4720-sakana-ai-wins-award-at-us-japan-competition-for-defense-innovation

Sakana AI won the Innovative Spirit Award at the US-Japan Global Innovation Challenge 2025, a defense innovation competition hosted by the US Department of Defense's DIU and Japan's ATLA. The company was the only participant selected as a finalist in both biodefense and disinformation countermeasure themes, out of 60 companies.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/defense-challenge-2025:

> Sakana AI was the only participating company to be selected as a finalist in both themes, and also received one of three awards at the competition, the Innovative Spirit Award.

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