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Sakana AI is a AI infra company, based in Tokyo, Japan, founded 2023 by David Ha, Llion Jones.
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- Sep 11, 2026Sep 11, 2026Sakana AI Splits Fugu Into Max And Ultra v2 Pulse story
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- Sep 11, 2026AI's Model-Release Treadmill Is AcceleratingSakana AI, DeepSeek, and OpenAI all shipped new or re-priced models within the same 72-hour window -- and CNBC's own framing of 'model fatigue' undersells how fast the underlying pace is actually speeding up.→
- Sep 11, 2026Sakana AI Splits Fugu Into Max And Ultra v2Sakana AI split its multi-agent orchestration model into a cost-first Fugu Max, priced 40-60% below Sonnet 5 and GPT 5.6 Terra, and a capability-first Fugu Ultra v2 that leads on two benchmarks.→
- Jun 22, 2026Sakana's New 'Fugu' System Hits Frontier Performance by Auto-Synthesizing ModelsJapanese lab Sakana AI unveiled Fugu, a multi-model system that automatically synthesizes and combines specialized models to reach frontier-level performance without relying on a single giant model. The approach revives Sakana's evolutionary, model-merging philosophy as a counterpoint to the brute-force scaling pursued by the largest US labs.→
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AI's Model-Release Treadmill Is Accelerating
Sakana AI, DeepSeek, and OpenAI all shipped new or re-priced models within the same 72-hour window -- and CNBC's own framing of 'model fatigue' undersells how fast the underlying pace is actually speeding up.
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Sakana AI Splits Fugu Into Max And Ultra v2
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Sakana AI Splits Fugu Into Max And Ultra v2
Sakana AI split its multi-agent orchestration model into a cost-first Fugu Max, priced 40-60% below Sonnet 5 and GPT 5.6 Terra, and a capability-first Fugu Ultra v2 that leads on two benchmarks.
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Sakana's New 'Fugu' System Hits Frontier Performance by Auto-Synthesizing Models
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Sakana's New 'Fugu' System Hits Frontier Performance by Auto-Synthesizing Models
Japanese lab Sakana AI unveiled Fugu, a multi-model system that automatically synthesizes and combines specialized models to reach frontier-level performance without relying on a single giant model. The approach revives Sakana's evolutionary, model-merging philosophy as a counterpoint to the brute-force scaling pursued by the largest US labs.
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Who are Sakana AI's investors?
Sakana AI's investors include Khosla Ventures.