#tulongfeng — Public Fediverse posts
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David Ha, co-founder and CEO of Sakana, described Fugu as more than just a land grab during a vulnerable moment for a US competitors.
It is designed to coordinate agent usage among many models.
“Orchestration Models are the next frontier, beyond bigger models,” he wrote on X.
Relying on a single provider for national infrastructure, he argued, is a risk the recent export controls made impossible to ignore.
“Access to top models can disappear overnight,” he wrote.
“Collective intelligence is the practical hedge against this concentration of power.”
While Tokyo-based Sakana positioned Fugu as a hedge strategy,
a way to preserve access to frontier AI,
not replace it,China’s 360 wasn’t hedging.
The Chinese firm reportedly unveiled two AI security tools.
Tulongfeng is designed to automatically discover software vulnerabilities,
and Yitianzhen is built to automate cyber defence and incident response.
The product launch, however, came with a message.
According to Reuters, 360’s founder Zhou Hongyi described vulnerability-finding AI as a national strategic asset,
and flagged what he called the risk of
“one-way transparency”,
a situation in which some actors could access advanced vulnerability-detection capabilities while others could not.Anthropic had been on a historic growth trajectory.
The US AI lab said its run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion in May 2026.
How much of that depends on Asian enterprise customers is not publicly known.
But in the weeks since the export order took effect,
at least two companies,
one in Tokyo,
one in Beijing,
have stepped into the space it left behind.Even if US companies could win back trust should this ban ever end,
local alternatives,
trained to better understand local language and nuance,
are already filling the gap. -
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled #Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s #Mythos.
That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version, #Fable 5, from the hands of non-Americans.
Earlier the same week Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI startup launched #Fugu, a model named after the Japanese word for blowfish.
The company says this frontier AI model “stands shoulder-to-shoulder with leading models like Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos Preview.”
It is also designed for agents, with an ability to orchestrate access to other models though their APIs.
The two new Asian model products come as the U.S. government’s ban drags on.
It’s order that prevents Anthropic from global access to Mythos and Fable occurred two weeks ago.
A spokesperson at Sakana AI told TechCrunch that release of its new model was “entirely coincidental,”
yet that hasn’t stopped it from capitalizing on the moment.Its website advertises “delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.”