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Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides

Not a pilot. Sakana AI's Marlin agent runs autonomously for 8 hours, generating 100-page research reports—enterprise research workflow just got automated.

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Sakana AI launches its first commercial product, Marlin, an agentic system that automates enterprise research and report generation at scale. This marks a shift from research labs to deployed agent-as-product in knowledge work.

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  1. Sakana Marlin is Sakana AI's first commercial product

  2. Agent runs autonomously for up to 8 hours per task

  3. Generates multi-page reports and slides (up to 100 pages)

  4. Built on AB-MCTS (Action-oriented Beam Monte Carlo Tree Search) and AI Scientist workflows

  5. Targets enterprise research and report generation use case

  6. Published June 15, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: Sakana AI's first commercial product runs autonomously for up to eight hours per task. It returns multi-page reports and slides, built on AB-MCTS and AI Scientist workflows. The post Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports…
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