Japan Considers Fugu as Domestic AI for Self-Defense Forces, Command Model Based on Qwen

The Japanese government is considering using Sakana Fugu for command and control in the Self-Defense Forces, listing it as one of the main candidates for "domestic AI," while requiring the exclusion of Chinese AI and ensuring that developers meet Japan's security review requirements. Fugu is essentially an AI scheduling system, with a small command model responsible for task allocation, while the actual execution of tasks is handled by closed-source large models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini. Sakana has confirmed that the command model has been trained based on Alibaba's Qwen. If Fugu is to be used for defense purposes, the Qwen layer will need to be replaced. Sakana has retrained the command model using Google's DeepMind open-source Gemma 4 E2B, with performance remaining largely unaffected, and the next step is to replace it with a domestically pre-trained model completed in Japan. Japan is striving to localize the "command tower" of Fugu, but the models providing cutting-edge capabilities still come from the United States, potentially leading to a situation where a Japanese model is responsible for command while an American model handles execution, with Chinese models excluded.

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