{"id":987805,"date":"2026-01-26T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987805"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:51:10","slug":"google-invests-in-sakana-ai-to-boost-geminis-presence-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/google-invests-in-sakana-ai-to-boost-geminis-presence-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Google invests in Sakana AI to boost Gemini\u2019s presence in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google joined Japanese startup Sakana AI\u2019s roster of backers in a move that bolsters chatbot Gemini\u2019s presence in a country eager to speed up artificial intelligence adoption.<\/p>\n<p>The investment follows a $135 million Series B funding round that valued the startup at about $2.6 billion last year. Sakana did not disclose an investment sum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google joined Japanese startup Sakana AI\u2019s roster of backers in a move that bolsters chatbot Gemini\u2019s presence in a country eager to speed up artificial intelligence adoption. The investment follows a $135 million Series B funding round that valued the startup at about $2.6 billion last year. Sakana did not disclose an investment sum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}