About Ren Ito
Ren Ito is a co-founder of Sakana AI.
Sakana AI: Nature-inspired methods such as evolutionary model merging and the AI Scientist.
Today Sakana AI ranks #45 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 56 papers in the last year and 23 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Ren is part of that story.
Facts from public company information; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Ren, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.