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Sakana AI launches "Ultra Deep Research" to automate weeks of strategy work

Apr 2, 2026The Decoder

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Sakana AI has unveiled "Sakana Marlin," an AI assistant for business customers that researches autonomously for up to eight hours and delivers finished analyses. The tool is designed to compress weeks of strategy work into hours and is currently in beta testing. The article Sakana AI launches "Ultra

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