How did Sakana AI Fugu Ultra v2 do on X?

Sakana AI posted the Fugu Ultra v2 launch from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 12, 2026. The post has 23,813 views, 194 likes, 18 reposts, 3 quotes and 13 replies, an engagement rate of 0.96%. It ranks #3142 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks.

Sakana AI@SakanaAILabs ยท 142.1K followersView on X
Fugu Ultra v2 is now live on @OpenRouter ๐Ÿ™ https://openrouter.ai/sakana/fugu-ultra-v2 Our flagship orchestration engine built for peak performance on complex multi-step reasoning, autonomous research, and full-stack software development.
Sep 12, 2026 ยท 23,813 views
  • 20%the median launch119.4K median views
  • #3142of the launches we trackout of 3,785
  • 0.2xits own following142,124 followers
Views
23.8K
Likes
194
Reposts
18
Quotes
3
Replies
13
Bookmarks
37

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, 23.8K views would cost $2K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 42x 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 Ultra v2 on OpenRouter, its flagship orchestration engine built for complex multi-step reasoning, autonomous research and full-stack software development.

How does it compare with other launches?

Sakana AI Fugu Ultra v2 has more views than 17% of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks: 20% of the median launch's 119.4K views.

  • Sakana AI Fugu Ultra v223.8K
  • Median tracked launch119.4K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricSakana AI Fugu Ultra v2Median launch
Views23.8K119.4K
Engagement rate0.96%0.58%
Views per follower0.21.5
Quote posts320
Saves per 10K views15.515.0

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 withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
AI launches1,818194.6K12%#1632
Accounts 100K to 1M followers1,516113.9K21%#1282
Text-only launch posts41872.1K33%#319
Every launch3,785119.4K20%#3142

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 32% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 1282 of 1516 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 3 quote posts, 1.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer 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 Ultra v2 is now live on @OpenRouter ๐Ÿ™". The post runs 27 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 Saturday (UTC). Saturday launches have a median of 102.5K 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 ๐Ÿก" Sakana AI posted the Fugu Ultra v2 launch from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 12, 2026.
How many views did Sakana AI Fugu Ultra v2 get on X?
23,813 views. Sakana AI posted it from @SakanaAILabs on Sep 12, 2026, and the post has 194 likes, 18 reposts, 3 quotes, 13 replies and 37 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Sakana AI Fugu Ultra v2 a big launch on X?
It ranks #3142 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 17% of them and 20% of the median launch's 119.4K views. Its engagement rate is 0.96%, against a median of 0.58%.
What would 23.8K 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, 23.8K views would cost $2K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 42x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/sakana-ai-fugu-ultra-v2, 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.