Comment by david_shi
15 hours ago
It's similar to this: https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-fronti...
Basically, if you combine a bunch of near-frontier models (like GPT 5.5, etc) you can get performance that sometimes surpasses top line models like Claude's Fable.
Sakana seems to have a separate approach using a domain specific model to perform the model routing step.
But it's priced the same as frontier models. Why do I not directly pay for frontier models?
This is a charitable read, but I think that being able to pick from a panoply of models will actually yield much better results in the long run.
The same model that has been post-trained to operate for hours as a Linux admin will be incapable of writing a heartfelt email, but with something like Fugu, you'd get both the Linux admin for driving the browser harness and the smaller writing specialist model for drafting the email itself.
u get a pool of them + sakana?
So plain old ensemble technique in classical ML.