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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.