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A Japanese AI Startup Says It Can Rival Anthropic's Best Models Without Building a Bigger AI. Meet Fugu Ultra.

Tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI have spent billions building ever-larger AI systems in the race for artificial intelligence supremacy. But a Japanese startup believes there may be another way. Instead of building a single gigantic AI brain, what if you could create a team of AI specialists that work together like experts solving a problem in the same room? That's the idea behind Fugu Ultra, a newly launched AI system from Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI.

Anthropic's Most Powerful AI Was Just Shut Down by the U.S. Government. Here's What Happened

Imagine launching one of the most advanced AI systems ever built. The tech world is buzzing. Developers are eager to test it. Businesses are lining up to use it. Then, just days later, the government steps in and effectively pulls the plug. That's exactly what just happened to Anthropic.

Anthropic Asked 81,000 People What They Want From AI… The Answers Are Not What You Think

Let’s be honest, everyone is building AI like they know what people want. But what if they’ve been guessing wrong this whole time? Well, Anthropic decided to stop guessing… and just ask. Not 100 people. Not 1,000. Over 81,000 people across 159 countries. And what they found?

A Switch from OpenAI to Anthropic? In One of the Most Controversial Talent Moves in AI, the Vice President of Research at OpenAI Has Joined Its Rival

In the world of artificial intelligence, new models and flashy product launches usually steal the spotlight. But sometimes, the biggest story isn’t a new AI tool; it is the people building them. That’s exactly what’s happening now.

This Free Chinese AI Model Has Now Surpassed GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Grok-4

This week, a Chinese startup called Moonshot AI released a new model Kimi K2 Thinking and quietly flipped the leaderboard. In independent benchmarks that test reasoning, coding, and autonomous tool use, this free, open-source model didn’t just compete with OpenAI’s GPT-5. It beat it.

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