Sakana's David Ha on Building a Frontier AI Lab in Japan and the Future of R&D

Ten minutes on the bet underneath Sakana: that a frontier lab can grow outside the Bay Area, shaped by Japan rather than in spite of it — and that AI R&D itself is about to be transformed by AI that does research. The short companion piece to the hour-long retrospective: less how he got here, more where he thinks the field’s center of gravity is allowed to be.