No Claude Fable 5? No problem: Sakana achieves frontier performance with new Fugu multi-model, auto synthesis system

Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that delivers frontier-level AI performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API. Designed for developers, enterprises, and nations seeking resilience against vendor lock-in and geopolitical export controls, Fugu (Japanese for "pufferfish"), bypasses the traditional monolithic model structure by dynamically routing queries to a swappable pool of specialized AI agents. Sakana CEO