Daiwa Securities moves its Sakana AI consulting platform from trials into production development

Sakana AI, Daiwa Securities Group and Daiwa Securities issued a joint disclosure on 5 August 2026. Its title translates as “Development of a total-asset consulting platform for Daiwa Securities with Sakana AI moves from the technical verification phase to the production development phase.” The disclosure is in Japanese, and the translation is ours.

	In the disclosure
The partnership	Signed in October 2025
The product	A consulting platform for Daiwa alone (大和証券専用の総資産コンサルティングプラットフォーム)
Its scope	A client’s total assets, including liabilities, across life stages
The stated aim	Higher-value consulting through “collaboration between people and AI” (人とAIの協働)
The status	Technical verification is complete. Production development begins

The disclosure does not say which Sakana AI technologies the platform uses, when it will launch or what it costs.

Sakana AI was founded in July 2023 and is led by David Ha and Ren Ito (伊藤 錬). It is the lab that released The AI Scientist, a system that generates research ideas, runs experiments and writes the paper.