Paper Instruments launches Ultramarine 1 Flash for professional work

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.

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.…