# Sakana AI Plans Sawara, a Japanese Foundation Model Built From Scratch

AlphaSignal, 2026-10-26. [Read the original](https://alphasignal.ai/news/sakana-ai-plans-sawara-a-japanese-foundation-model-built-from-scratch).

Sakana AI announced Sawara, a Japanese foundation model trained from scratch and aimed at hundreds of billions of parameters.