Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent model API aimed at the export-control era
The Tokyo lab says Fugu Ultra can route work across model pools while matching top frontier benchmarks without relying on one vendor.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X / Sakana AI
Why it matters
Fugu turns Sakana AI's nature-inspired research into a product for a market where model access, vendor lock-in and export controls have become operational risks.

David Ha (@hardmaru), Llion Jones (@YesThisIsLion) and Ren Ito's Sakana AI released Sakana Fugu on Monday, turning the Tokyo AI lab's long-running thesis about collective intelligence into a commercial API that behaves like a single model while coordinating a pool of agents behind the scenes.…
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