Sakana AI Launches Fugu / Fugu Ultra Orchestrator Models
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Sakana AI launches Fugu and Fugu Ultra, orchestrator models that route prompts across multiple underlying LLMs, benchmarked by the company as competitive with Anthropic's Fable/Mythos-class models.
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Sakana AI's viral announcement of the Fugu Ultra model, a pool of models matching Fable and Mythos, is framed by the creator as a potential future of AI development that could outperform Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 on specific benchmarks, coinciding with OpenAI's reveal of its 'Jalapeno' AI chip and signs of Fable 5's imminent re-release.
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Sakana AI's new Fugu and Fugu Ultra orchestrator models match or beat Fable 5 on key benchmarks like Live Code Bench and Google Proof Q&A, but their $30 cost per two complex coding tasks on Ultra mode makes them too expensive for casual use.