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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 12, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
Sakana AI Splits Its Router Into a Cheap Tier and a Capability Tier
Fugu Max prices at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens by routing work to the smallest model capable of handling it, including NVIDIA Nemotron open-weight models.
Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, two configurations of the same orchestration architecture built for different priorities. Fugu is not a foundation model. It is a learned router that breaks a request into pieces, assigns e…
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The Inference-Cost Efficiency Race
Techniques that cut tokens generated and KV-cache memory per query will keep compressing the marginal cost of serving reasoning models, making inference efficiency a recurring competitive axis alongside raw capability.
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