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A trip to Shenzhen, an unfamiliar startup, and three months of late nights turned a buzzword I had been dodging into the most productive tool I have ever used.

In late March 2026, a suspected North Korean threat actor managed to inject malicious code into Axios, one of the most heavily used JavaScript libraries in the world. With an estimated 100 million weekly downloads, Axios is embedded in the infrastructure of enterprises, startups, government agencies, and countless automated build pipelines. The attack was not just alarming because of its scale. It was alarming because of how fast it unfolded and how quickly the damage spread, even after it was detected.

When access to the world’s most powerful AI models can be switched off overnight, owning one of them stops looking like a strength and starts looking like a liability. That is the wager behind Fugu, the multi-agent orchestration system that the increasingly enterprise-focused Japanese startup Sakana AI launched late on a Sunday night. Rather than build another monolithic foundation model, Sakana built a coordinator that conducts a swappable pool of specialized agents and delivers frontier-level results through a single, OpenAI-compatible API.