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Sakana Fugu: an interesting orchestrator, but not an LLM (nor cheap)

Fugu is not a model: it is an orchestrator that routes tasks to frontier models like Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. I find the approach interesting for complex tasks, but it is slower and more expensive than using any of those models on its own.

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Giovanni Moreno

June 23, 2026 · 3 min

A pufferfish (Takifugu) swimming, a direct nod to the name of Sakana AI's Fugu system.

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Geminid meteor shower over Kitt Peak Observatory, a nod to the Gemini constellation that gives the model its name.

Artificial IntelligenceJun 23, 2026 · 3 min

Gemini 3.5 Pro: the knowledge cutoff leak pointing to a fresh pretrain

A model on LMArena's battle mode reported a March 2026 knowledge cutoff, and the community believes it is Gemini 3.5 Pro. It is an unconfirmed rumor, but the signals point to a fresh pretrain rather than another RL experiment.

A ripe jalapeño pepper on a neutral background, a direct nod to the name of OpenAI's first chip.

HardwareJun 23, 2026 · 3 min

Ideas at the frontier of technology

Sakana Fugu: an interesting orchestrator, but not an LLM (nor cheap)

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