Sakana AI launched Fugu Max, an orchestration system that claims to deliver performance near elite models at 40-60% lower output pricing, and Fugu Ultra v2, which achieves top scores on several agentic benchmarks without using proprietary frontier models like Fable 5 or GPT-6-Astra. The releases demonstrate that a pooled, swappable set of open and specialized models can compete with monolithic frontier models on cost and capability. For a financial institution, this suggests the AI supply chain is becoming more fragmented and less dependent on a few frontier labs, potentially reducing vendor concentration risk in enterprise AI procurement.
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