Sakana Fugu Release

Sakana Fugu released today and I think it is an exciting frontier of LLMs. A quick description of Sakana Fugu is a model that behaves like a single model, handling routing to the correct frontier model. I can see it as a future, where Anthropic or OpenAI release a similar product that routes your request to a specific LLM based on the complexity of the query.

The performance of Fugu-Ultra really does seem to be innovative, with reportedly Mythos level performance, but I will need to see some third party benchmarks before I truly believe the claims. I am excited to see where this API level integration will go with teams of agents, but I will not subscrribe the the $20/month plan yet.

The pricing follows standard LLM API rates, with $5/Mtok input and $30/Mtok output with increased rates for context larger than 272k tokens. There are also Subscription plans from $20 a month to $200 a month, with more usage the more you pay.