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Japan just entered the AI war. And while America and China keep fighting over who has the strongest AI, Japan did something far sneakier. They built a tool called Fugu from a lab called Sakana AI. And one fact makes you take it seriously right away.
One of the people who started Sakana helped write the paper that all modern AI is built on, the one behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. So when these people try something new, it's worth a look. [music]
And what they tried is strange because Fugu is not really an AI itself. It's more like a boss for other AIs. You give it a job, and instead of doing it alone, it picks the best AI for each part, puts them all to work at the same time, [music] and joins their answers into one.
So for easy tasks, you'd still just use ChatGPT or Claude, but for hard ones like deep research or big code check, Fugu runs a whole team of AIs together like one brain made of many. And that's where it gets fun because the results turned heads fast.
On one of the hardest coding tests out there, Fugu scored 73% while GPT 5.5, one of the best AIs you can buy, only got 58. That's a big lead for something that doesn't even do the work itself.
It almost sounds too good to be true, and that's exactly the problem. Because those scores come from Sakana's own tests, not an outside one. So no one has proven them yet. People who tried it say it can be really slow with some tasks taking 30 minutes. And a well-known AI professor from Wharton [music] tested it and said that in real life, it just didn't feel as strong as the top AIs it claims to beat.
So the hype and the truth don't quite match, at least not yet. But even then, the idea is hard to ignore. A team of AIs working as one instead of a single giant brain. And if it works, it could change the whole AI race.
So tell me in [music] the comments, is this the future of AI or just a clever trick that won't last?