The Japanese government is considering using Sakana Fugu for the Self Defense Forces and plans to replace the Qwen model

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese government is considering using Sakana Fugu for the command and control of the Self Defense Forces and has listed it as a candidate for domestic AI. Sakana acknowledges that the Fugu command model was previously trained on Alibaba Qwen and has now been retrained using Google Gemma 4 E2B, with plans to replace it with a Japanese made model in the future.