Sakana ships Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, pushing the cost-capability Pareto frontier via orchestration
SakanaAILabs · x · 2026-09-12
Sakana AI's release notes for Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 argue the real frontier is two-dimensional — capability vs cost — and the future belongs to orchestration systems that know which machinery to deploy for the lowest cost.
- One orchestration architecture, two missions: Fugu Max maximizes quality at lowest cost; Fugu Ultra v2 maximizes peak performance on complex multi-step tasks without relying on the frontier models it orchestrates
- Timeline: April beta proved multi-agent orchestration can work as a unified foundation model; June GA + Fugu Ultra v1 showed an orchestration layer matching closed frontier models on some tasks
- Fugu Max orchestrates Sakana's largest pool of open and specialized models
- On OpenRouter: $2/$6 per 1M tokens, 1M context, image/PDF input, built-in web search, configurable reasoning effort
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