model routing
6 published articles
AI IDEs
Cursor attacks agent costs with an India plan at ₹649 and a model router
Cursor's July update adds a ₹649-a-month India plan and an Auto mode that routes requests to cheaper models, alongside full PR review on iPhone and iPad and agents that work in Slack. The release is really about controlling agentic coding costs.
2026-08-05
AI Architecture
The Model Race Has a Second Track Now
Anthropic capping Claude Opus 5's cyber skills, Sakana's Fugu orchestrating model swarms, and Claude Code's new multi-model routing all point to the same shift: the next competitive edge in AI systems is orchestration, not just raw model size.
2026-07-28
AI Coding Tools
Claude Code can now route to a whole school of models
Sakana AI's Fugu multi-agent system gains a Claude Code interface, allowing developers to orchestrate a pool of specialized models from within Anthropic's closed-source coding environment. The integration highlights a broader shift: model routing is becoming a platform feature, not a user concern.
2026-07-26
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
Systems Design / LLM Infrastructure
The real cost of model routing has nothing to do with sticker price
Across 417 agentic tasks, GPT-4.1 cost nearly double Claude Sonnet despite lower sticker pricing, because caching rewrote the math. A deep-dive on why model routing fails as classification, and how optimization-based routers beat difficulty-based ones.
2026-07-15