The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.
Here's how we did it 🧵
We’re sharing the next major milestone in our non-invasive brain-to-text decoder research: Brain2Qwerty v2.
Building on v1, which was published today in @Nature, Brain2Qwerty v2 is the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from raw brain signals. It advances beyond character-level performance to decoding words and semantics, enabling accuracy for overall communication.
We believe this research has the potential to make a real difference for the millions of people who suffer from brain lesions or disorders that prevent them from communicating.
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Tried & liked it on https://t.co/7gOqjtmSJ3.
Fugu Ultra pairs well as a advisor & planner with Composer 2.5.
For scope/architecture, it’s on par with Fable orchestration.
Advisor doesn’t slow the loop if the driver stays fast & https://t.co/9cL4HqvqSf can split it from worker.
Human intelligence is fundamentally a collective intelligence. We solve complex problems by participating in a vast cultural network that builds upon ideas across generations.
I believe the strongest AI systems will become a collective intelligence, too.
Since we started Sakana AI, our core conviction has been that the most powerful AI systems will be collaborative ecosystems, not isolated monoliths. Evolution innovates under constraints, and the future belongs to systems that explicitly learn how to coordinate collective intelligence.
Today, we are taking a major step toward that future with the launch of Sakana Fugu.
Fugu dynamically orchestrates the world’s best models to tackle complex tasks. We are proving that a well-orchestrated pool of swappable agents can match restricted frontier models like Fable and Mythos.
But Fugu is about more than just performance. I believe that Orchestration Models are the next frontier, beyond bigger models.
Relying on a single company’s model for national infrastructure is a massive risk. As recent export controls have shown, access to top models can disappear overnight.
Collective intelligence is the practical hedge against this concentration of power. Fugu simply routes around vendor restrictions by relying on an entirely swappable agent pool.
I am incredibly proud of our Tokyo team for shipping this. By orchestrating the world’s models, we are delivering the resilient blueprint required for AI sovereignty.
Read our full vision and results here:
https://t.co/EONDdWx5Ld 🐡
Fugu stands shoulder-to-shoulder with leading models like Fable and Mythos across the industry's most rigorous engineering, scientific, and reasoning benchmarks.
Read the full blog: https://t.co/2ZJbdWqCUj
Beyond Bigger Models: Why are Orchestration Models the Next Frontier
Progress in AI has been driven largely by giant, monolithic models. But the most powerful systems of the future will be collaborative ecosystems.
Today, this orchestration is no longer just a technical optimization. It has become a geopolitical and operational imperative.
For an organization or a nation, relying on a single company's model for critical infrastructure, finance, or governance is a material vulnerability. This risk is no longer a hypothetical possibility, but a reality.
As we have seen with recent export controls imposed on models like Fable and Mythos, access can disappear overnight.
Collective intelligence is the practical hedge against this concentration of power. Because Fugu orchestrates an underlying pool of swappable agents, it simply routes around vendor restrictions.
By orchestrating the world’s models, we are delivering the resilient blueprint required for true AI sovereignty.
While modern amphibians start life in a larval stage, a new fossil study in Science suggests these tadpole-like stages were not present in earlier times.
Learn more: https://t.co/yYkwa1Jl4F
As living fossils, lampreys, such as this Far Eastern brook, provide an irreplaceable model for reconstructing the ancestral vertebrate brain.
The first single-cell three-dimensional lamprey brain atlas reveals that the vertebrate common ancestor (~500 million years ago) already had a highly regionalized brain, and subsequent neuronal specialization likely drove vertebrate brain diversification.
Learn more this week in Science: https://t.co/a9LAa6GKBY