>The name sakana is derived from the Japanese word さかな (sa-ka-na) which means fish. Our logo is meant to invoke the idea of a school of fish coming together and forming a coherent entity from simple rules as we want to make use of ideas from nature such as evolution and collective intelligence in our research.

I'm still unclear exactly what they will be doing (other than researching non-transformer architectures)

They raised $30MM and ex-google engineers. They will probably pivot into a productivity SaaS product.