{"slug": "paper-instruments-launches-ultramarine-1-flash-for-professional-work", "title": "Paper Instruments launches Ultramarine 1 Flash for professional work", "summary": "Paper Instruments CEO Daanish Khazi launched Ultramarine 1 Flash on October 14th, an open model for professional work in finance, law, consulting and operations, which Khazi said a five-person team post-trained for about $300,000. Khazi claimed in a thread on X that the model performs similarly to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at roughly one-sixtieth the cost, with an internal benchmark putting one task at $0.13, and said model weights are expected in about two weeks.", "body_md": "# Paper Instruments launches Ultramarine 1 Flash for professional work\n\n**CEO Daanish Khazi says post-training cost about $300,000; the company's benchmarks put one task at $0.13, with model weights expected in about two weeks.**\n\n        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [X](https://x.com/bertgodel/status/2110400987622265232)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nPaper Instruments is testing whether a small team can use reinforcement learning on an open base model to make professional-work agents cheaper to run. Its strongest cost comparison comes from an internal benchmark, so the open weights and outside evaluations will be important tests of the claim.\n\n[Paper Instruments CEO Daanish Khazi (@bertgodel)](https://x.com/bertgodel) launched Ultramarine 1 Flash on October 14th, pitching it as an open model for professional work across finance, law, consulting and operations. In a [thread on X](https://x.com/bertgodel/status/2110400987622265232), Khazi said a five-person team post-trained the model for about $300,000 and claimed it performs similarly to Anthropic's [Claude Fable 5](https://runtimewire.com/models/anthropic/claude-fable-5:batch) at roughly one-sixtieth the cost.…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paper-instruments-launches-ultramarine-1-flash-for-professional-work", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/paper-instruments-ultramarine-1-flash", "published_at": "2026-10-14 17:42:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 00:11:04.208326+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Paper Instruments", "Ultramarine 1 Flash", "Daanish Khazi", "Anthropic", "Claude Fable 5", "X"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paper-instruments-launches-ultramarine-1-flash-for-professional-work", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paper-instruments-launches-ultramarine-1-flash-for-professional-work.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paper-instruments-launches-ultramarine-1-flash-for-professional-work.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/paper-instruments-launches-ultramarine-1-flash-for-professional-work.jsonld"}}