Datadog, Inc. partners with Sakana AI to support enterprise AI in Japan

Datadog, Inc. and Sakana Artificial Intelligence (AI) formed a strategic partnership to support next-generation AI applications, with initial work focused in Japan to address enterprise needs for visibility into AI performance and reliability.

The two organizations described plans to concentrate efforts on enterprise adoption, citing Datadog’s regional presence and a local data center in Japan as a basis for initial deployment before broader geographic expansion over time to address performance and data residency requirements.

Datadog presented its platform as an AI-powered observability and security service for cloud applications, with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, user experience monitoring, cloud security and other capabilities to provide unified, real-time observability and security. Sakana AI was founded in July 2023 and is based in Tokyo, and the company listed milestones including Evolutionary Model Merge, a method for merging multiple AI models, and The AI Scientist, described as the first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery that enables Foundation Models to perform research independently.

The collaboration involved research and engineering teams working to explore approaches for building, deploying, and operating advanced AI systems at scale, and the companies planned joint research initiatives, potential open-source contributions, product work, and go-to-market efforts aimed initially at large enterprise customers in Japan.

“AI systems are becoming foundational to how modern enterprises build and operate software, but they also introduce new complexity,” said Bharat Sajnani, Head of Datadog Ventures. “At present, enterprises globally are increasingly looking to move generative AI tools and applications from proof-of-concept, into production environments that deliver real value,” said David Ha, Co-founder & CEO of Sakana AI.

The press release included a forward-looking statements disclaimer noting that actual results may differ and that the companies undertook no duty to update those statements except as required by law.