In its own words on X: "Building Frontier AI in Japan Try Sakana Chat, Translate, Marlin, Namazu, Fugu 🐡" Sakana AI posted the Fugu Max launch from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 11, 2026.

How many views did Sakana AI Fugu Max get on X?

33,834 views. Sakana AI posted it from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 11, 2026, and the post has 177 likes, 17 reposts, 7 quotes, 15 replies and 29 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.

Was Sakana AI Fugu Max a big launch on X?

It ranks #2856 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 25% of them and 28% of the median launch's 119.4K views. Its engagement rate is 0.64%, against a median of 0.58%.

How did Sakana AI Fugu Max do on X?

Sakana AI posted the Fugu Max launch from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 11, 2026. The post has 33,834 views, 177 likes, 17 reposts, 7 quotes and 15 replies, an engagement rate of 0.64%. It ranks #2856 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks.

Sakana AI@SakanaAILabs · 142.1K followersView on X

Fugu Max is now live on @OpenRouter! 🐡 Our learned multi-agent orchestration engine routes tasks across open-weights and specialized models for Pareto-frontier efficiency. • $2/$6 per 1M tokens • Multimodal (Image/PDF)+Web search • Configurable reasoning · Function calling · Structured outputs https://openrouter.ai/sakana/fugu-max

Sep 11, 2026 · 33,834 views

28%the median launch119.4K median views
#2856of the launches we trackout of 3,785
0.2xits own following142,124 followers

Views: 33.8K
Likes: 177
Reposts: 17
Quotes: 7
Replies: 15
Bookmarks: 29

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 33.8K views would cost $3K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 30x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 0.2 views for every follower of @SakanaAILabs.

What launched?

Sakana AI launched Fugu Max on OpenRouter, a multi-agent orchestration engine that routes tasks across open-weights and specialized models at $2 and $6 per million tokens.

How does it compare with other launches?

Sakana AI Fugu Max has more views than 25% of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks: 28% of the median launch's 119.4K views.

Sakana AI Fugu Max33.8K
Median tracked launch119.4K
#1: xAI Voice Cloning204M

Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.

Metric	Sakana AI Fugu Max	Median launch
Views	33.8K	119.4K
Engagement rate	0.64%	0.58%
Views per follower	0.2	1.5
Quote posts	7	20
Saves per 10K views	8.6	15.0

Other Sakana AI launches we track: Sakana AI Sakana Fugu (26.5M views), Sakana AI Fugu-Cyber (594K views), Sakana AI Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 (388.3K views), Sakana AI Fugu-Ultra v1.1 (326.7K views), Sakana AI Fugu-Ultra on OpenRouter (227K views), Sakana AI Claude Code-compatible interface (136.5K views). All 10 Sakana AI launches, or every AI launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared with	Launches	Median views	This one	Rank
AI launches	1,818	194.6K	17%	#1525
Accounts 100K to 1M followers	1,516	113.9K	30%	#1163
Text-only launch posts	418	72.1K	47%	#282
Every launch	3,785	119.4K	28%	#2856

What this launch shows

From an account with 142.1K followers, the post reached 0.2 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 100K to 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 46% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 1163 of 1516 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 7 quote posts, 2.1 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "Fugu Max is now live on @OpenRouter! 🐡". The post runs 41 words, against a median of 38 for launch posts here, and leads with no media: text-only launches have a median of 72.1K views, against 125K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 109.6K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Friday (UTC). Friday launches have a median of 101.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 137.9K.

Every comparison is against the 3,785 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

What is Sakana AI?: In its own words on X: "Building Frontier AI in Japan Try Sakana Chat, Translate, Marlin, Namazu, Fugu 🐡" Sakana AI posted the Fugu Max launch from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 11, 2026.
How many views did Sakana AI Fugu Max get on X?: 33,834 views. Sakana AI posted it from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 11, 2026, and the post has 177 likes, 17 reposts, 7 quotes, 15 replies and 29 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Sakana AI Fugu Max a big launch on X?: It ranks #2856 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 25% of them and 28% of the median launch's 119.4K views. Its engagement rate is 0.64%, against a median of 0.58%.
What would 33.8K views on X cost to buy?: At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 33.8K views would cost $3K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 30x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/sakana-ai-fugu-max, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.