Sakana AI, a Japanese AI lab, has launched Sakana Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that presents as a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint while internally handling model selection, delegation, verification, and synthesis across a pool of expert agents. Two tiers are available: Fugu for balanced performance and low latency, and Fugu Ultra, which the company claims matches frontier models Fable and Mythos on engineering, scientific, and reasoning benchmarks. A key differentiator is its design around export-control resilience — swappable agents allow organizations to route around vendor restrictions, positioning it as a sovereign AI option for critical infrastructure. The launch signals a strategic shift from monolithic LLMs toward orchestration-layer models with geopolitical and operational advantages.