cost-performance
3 published articles
Walled-garden routing
The router that hides which AI model runs your prompt, and why that matters
Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra 1.1 hides which model runs your prompt behind a single API. The trade-offs between cost savings and debugging visibility are sharper than they look.
2026-07-24
Model Orchestration
The model choice is now the router's problem, not yours
Sakana AI's Fugu routes each task to a specialized model behind a single API, promising less integration overhead and better cost-performance. It lands in a fast-forming category where the model itself is becoming an implementation detail.
2026-07-18
Coding Agents
Cognition's new coding agent scores near frontier results for pocket change
Cognition's SWE-1.7 coding model narrows the gap to frontier systems at a fraction of the cost, scoring 42.3% on FrontierCode and running at 1,000 tok/s. The model was trained on an improved reinforcement learning pipeline using Kimi K2.7 as the base.
2026-07-09