# Paper Instruments launches Ultramarine 1 Flash for professional work

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/paper-instruments-ultramarine-1-flash>
> Published: 2026-10-14 17:42:37+00:00

# Paper Instruments launches Ultramarine 1 Flash for professional work

**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.**

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
        · Published 

Primary source: [X](https://x.com/bertgodel/status/2110400987622265232)

## Why it matters

Paper 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.

[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.…