{"slug": "sakana-ai-teams-with-nvidia-to-advance-open-model-innovation-from-japan", "title": "Sakana AI Teams With NVIDIA to Advance Open Model Innovation from Japan", "summary": "Sakana AI has partnered with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA's open model stack, including Nemotron, into Sakana Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system. The collaboration aims to advance open model innovation from Japan by combining NVIDIA's accelerated computing with Sakana's collective intelligence approach, enabling more modular and adaptable AI systems.", "body_md": "Sakana AI is advancing AI progress by building more capable systems not only by scaling individual models, but by orchestrating many open, specialized models into a form of collective intelligence. The next phase of this work will bring NVIDIA’s open model stack, including [NVIDIA Nemotron](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/), into Sakana Fugu, Sakana AI’s multi-agent orchestration system, combining NVIDIA’s open models and accelerated computing with Sakana AI’s Japan-born approach to collective intelligence. Together, the companies aim to show how open model ecosystems and intelligent orchestration can define a more modular, adaptable, and open future for AI, advancing open model innovation from Japan for the world.\n\nAt the center of this collaboration is [Sakana Fugu](/fugu-release/), which works as an intelligence orchestrator. Behind a single interface and API, Fugu dynamically selects, coordinates, and combines the strengths of multiple underlying models and agents, choosing the right capabilities for each task and synthesizing them into a single response. This design makes Fugu modular by nature, since new and better models can be added over time, allowing the system to improve not only through its own development but also through the progress of the broader AI ecosystem. It also makes Fugu more adaptable and resilient, because it is never tied to the strengths, limitations, or availability of any single model.\n\nSakana Fugu marks an early but important step toward a complementary path for advancing AI. In early evaluations, this orchestration-based approach has shown strong performance alongside leading frontier systems, suggesting that model coordination can become a powerful scaling path in its own right. The next opportunity is to expand the diversity, specialization, and quality of the models available to Fugu, so the system can draw on the best capabilities of the open model ecosystem as it grows.\n\nAs part of the expanded collaboration, Sakana is integrating Nemotron, an open model family with open weights and tooling, as specialized agents within Sakana Fugu. Nemotron, as open and specialized models, can complement frontier models within Fugu’s orchestration. With distinct strengths in coding, tool calling, and instruction following, Nemotron models will add new capabilities to Fugu’s pool of agents, alongside the other open and specialized models the system orchestrates. In doing so, Nemotron helps demonstrate a broader idea, that open models become more useful when orchestrated together inside agentic systems rather than used in isolation.\n\n*Sakana Fugu is itself a language model trained to call various LLMs in an agent pool, including instances of itself recursively. Fugu dynamically orchestrates the world’s best models to tackle complex, multi-step tasks. We are excited to integrate open models, such as NVIDIA’s Nemotron, into Fugu.*\n\nThe collaboration is designed to create a reinforcing cycle between open models, orchestration, and real-world use. Sakana Fugu gains access to a deeper pool of specialized model capabilities, while NVIDIA can evaluate how its models perform when coordinated as part of agentic, multi-step workflows. Developers and enterprises benefit from more choice, greater flexibility, and less dependence on any single model or provider. Over time, these real-world signals can help improve both the models and the orchestration layer, turning practical usage into a feedback loop for more capable, open AI systems.\n\nThis feedback loop reflects a broader shift in the AI industry. As open models become more numerous, capable, and specialized, progress will increasingly depend on how well these models can be evaluated, combined, and deployed in real workflows. No single model is likely to hold every advantage across every task, language, modality, and enterprise environment. That makes orchestration a critical layer for the next stage of open AI, turning a diverse model ecosystem into practical, reliable systems. NVIDIA’s open model stack, its support for companies building on open models, and its accelerated computing platform can help scale this layer, providing both high-quality models to orchestrate and the infrastructure to run them efficiently.\n\nThe stakes of this next stage of open AI reach well beyond any single company. Open models are quickly becoming a foundation for AI innovation worldwide, offering transparency, control, and freedom from single-provider lock-in, and their progress is now driven by contributions from many countries and communities. Sakana AI is proud to add to that effort from Japan, bringing a distinctive collective-intelligence approach that helps developers and enterprises put a growing world of open models to practical use. Working alongside NVIDIA, Sakana AI aims to advance open model innovation from Japan for the world, and to help ensure the benefits of open AI are shared as widely as the models themselves.\n\n*\n“We’re excited to collaborate with NVIDIA to build the next generation of Fugu orchestration models together, by incorporating leading open-weights models like Nemotron.”\n*\n\n**David Ha, Co-Founder and CEO, Sakana AI\n**\n\n*\n”Open models give countries the ability to build AI that reflects their own language, culture and policies. By bringing NVIDIA Nemotron into Sakana Fugu, we're helping developers build more capable AI systems and demonstrating what's possible when open and closed models are intelligently orchestrated.”\n*\n\n**Kari Briski, Vice President of Generative AI, NVIDIA**\n\nThe next phase of collaboration will begin with concrete technical work. Once NVIDIA Nemotron is integrated as a specialized agent in an upcoming version of Fugu, Sakana and NVIDIA Nemotron teams will collaborate to continuously observe and improve the performance of Nemotron in Fugu. In turn, NVIDIA will support the integration with technical guidance on Nemotron recipes and evaluation best practices, helping Fugu draw the strongest performance from Nemotron in its multi-agent workflows. Together, the companies will evaluate how Nemotron performs within Fugu’s multi-agent workflows and use those findings to inform future improvements to both Nemotron and Fugu.\n\nSakana AI and NVIDIA aim to help shape a new generation of AI systems that are modular, collaborative, and open by design. By pairing Sakana AI’s work in collective intelligence with NVIDIA’s open models and accelerated computing, the two companies are working to show that the most capable AI will come not from any single model, but from many models working in concert. It is a step toward a more open and adaptable future for AI, and toward building that future, from Japan, for the world.\n\n## Sakana AI\n\nInterested in joining us?\n\nPlease see our [career opportunities](/careers/) for more information.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sakana-ai-teams-with-nvidia-to-advance-open-model-innovation-from-japan", "canonical_source": "https://sakana.ai/nvidia-open-model-innovation/", "published_at": "2026-07-15 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 22:57:59.120265+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Sakana AI", "NVIDIA", "Nemotron", "Sakana Fugu"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sakana-ai-teams-with-nvidia-to-advance-open-model-innovation-from-japan", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sakana-ai-teams-with-nvidia-to-advance-open-model-innovation-from-japan.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sakana-ai-teams-with-nvidia-to-advance-open-model-innovation-from-japan.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sakana-ai-teams-with-nvidia-to-advance-open-model-innovation-from-japan.jsonld"}}