Thursday, February 26, 2026
Datadog, Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with Sakana AI to accelerate AI innovation and strengthen observability for enterprise-grade AI systems. Through this collaboration, both companies will actively drive research, product development, and go-to-market initiatives that support organizations adopting AI at scale.
As enterprises increasingly integrate AI into their digital ecosystems, they face new operational challenges. Therefore, Datadog and Sakana AI will combine their technical strengths to develop advanced methods for building, deploying, and managing large-scale AI systems. By aligning research and engineering teams, the companies aim to enhance performance monitoring, reliability, and overall visibility into AI-driven applications.
Importantly, this partnership addresses a growing demand for enterprise-ready AI solutions. Modern businesses not only require innovation but also need operational transparency and security. By merging Sakana AI’s cutting-edge foundation model research with Datadog’s AI-powered observability and security platform, the collaboration seeks to close the gap between experimentation and production deployment.
“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. “By partnering with Sakana AI, we are combining deep AI research expertise with Datadog’s platform for observability and security to help organizations better understand and operate these systems with confidence.”
Initially, the partnership will concentrate on large enterprise customers in Japan. Datadog will leverage its strong regional presence, including its local data center infrastructure, to meet performance and data residency requirements. Subsequently, the companies plan to expand their collaboration globally, ensuring enterprises worldwide can benefit from scalable and compliant AI operations.
Furthermore, both organizations intend to pursue joint research programs, including potential open-source contributions and coordinated product initiatives. Sakana AI contributes advanced research capabilities focused on efficient, adaptive, and scalable AI models tailored for complex industrial applications. Meanwhile, Datadog brings extensive operational expertise, supporting tens of thousands of organizations that run sophisticated cloud-native and AI-powered systems globally.
Together, Datadog and Sakana AI aim to empower enterprises to move beyond proof-of-concept AI deployments and into reliable production environments that generate measurable business value.
“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. “Working with Datadog allows Sakana AI to collaborate with a global enterprise leader and learn directly from how some of the world’s most sophisticated organizations operate AI systems at scale.”
By aligning innovation with operational excellence, this partnership sets the stage for more responsible, scalable, and enterprise-ready AI adoption worldwide.
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