Sakana AI launches "Ultra Deep Research" to automate weeks of strategy work

Japanese AI startup Sakana AI has unveiled "Sakana Marlin," its first product for business customers. The system works autonomously: give it a topic, and it researches on its own for up to eight hours, then delivers detailed reports and presentations. Sakana AI says the tool can produce professional strategy analyses that would normally take human teams several weeks.

Sakana Marlin combines the company's "AI Scientist," designed to resolve contradictions, with its previously introduced "AB-MCTS" method for strategic searches. Multiple AI models work together, and longer thinking time is meant to yield better results, the company says.

The company is looking for beta testers in finance, research, and business consulting. The beta is free, but requires registration (the form is in Japanese). The biggest weakness of automated reports like these is hard-to-spot AI errors, something the startup doesn't address in its announcement.