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Sakana AI launches Fugu, an API that routes work across several frontier models

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Source: DataNorth

Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu and Fugu Ultra, an API that splits each request across a pool of frontier language models and merges the results, with a 1-million-token context; Fugu Ultra costs $5 and $30 per million input and output tokens. Sakana claimed results matching Claude Fable 5; independent tests by Ethan Mollick did not match it on coding.

Why it matters

Customers in countries cut off from Fable 5 by US export controls got a way to spread work across several providers.

When
24 Jun 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0217
Where
Japan
Who
Sakana AI; Ethan Mollick

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from DataNorth. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Read the original at DataNorth

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0217: “Sakana AI launches Fugu, an API that routes work across several frontier models.” wheresthe.ai, 24 Jun 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/jp-sakana-fugu-orchestration-api-2026-06/ (source: DataNorth).

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