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We are releasing Ultramarine 1 Flash, a frontier-class model built for knowledge work. It is open-source and achieves similar performance to Fable 5, while being 60x cheaper. It was post-trained by a team of 5 for ~$300k all-in. Available on API now, with weights releasing in 2 weeks.

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Daanish Khazi20 hours ago

It is on the Pareto frontier for knowledge work and built to support AI companies servicing banks, law firms, etc.

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Daanish Khazi20 hours ago

This release is one of the largest open experiments in non-verifiable agentic RL, and we're open-sourcing our training code along with a detailed tech report.

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Daanish Khazi20 hours ago

Through prolonged training, the model learnt professional standards: visual hierarchy, straightforward prose, etc.

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Daanish Khazi20 hours ago

Ultramarine 1 Flash is a drop-in alternative to GPT & Claude for AI companies serving knowledge workers. Please visit our platform to make an API key, or download the Feather app to try it in our native knowledge work harness. We're admitting off of the waitlist on a rolling basis as we scale compute, and will tweet a link to the weights within 2 weeks.

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eimen20 hours ago

wow that's wild. congrats!!

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Konstantin Dunas20 hours ago

Congrats! Looks amazing :)

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Chris Barber20 hours ago

LFG

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Rtzr20 hours ago

Congrats!!

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Documenting AGI20 hours ago

“Nobody has an AI background, nobody got a PhD, nobody has worked at OpenAI.” AND about to disrupt the AI industry - thrilling.

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Movez20 hours ago

wow, this will be my new model for hard tasks, going to try right now

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Maxim Karoubi20 hours ago

Game changer

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Joumana20 hours ago

so good!

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Whale Insider20 hours ago

🐳🐳🐳

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tarun odedra20 hours ago

huge! want to get my hands on it

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Makerth Runee20 hours ago

I will like to see how it can compete with GPT and Claude in the finance and trading niche. I hope you win over these big boys

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Aleksandar Janca20 hours ago

similar to fable 5 on what though, the general benchmarks or the knowledge work tasks you actually post-trained it for

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Andrew Zhao20 hours ago

Gratz!

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said20 hours ago

testing it right now! congrats on the launch Daanish 🤗

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Javier Rivero20 hours ago

this is insane, amazing work from the team!

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Hongji Lee19 hours ago

Post-trained by a team of 5 for $300k. That's less than most companies spend on the offsite to pick an AI strategy.

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Anatoli Kopadze20 hours ago

this is insane and opens so many doors, will definitely be watching

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WallStreetBets20 hours ago

curious to see this hit wall street 👀

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Insider Paper19 hours ago

The top US open model ranks behind 15 Chinese models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, so this is crazy.

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CyrilXBT20 hours ago

Yessir it’s time for america’s deepseek baby

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Rohan Bansal20 hours ago

incredible, congrats yall!

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Aapakari20 hours ago

Interesting launch 🚀

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Eddie Conk20 hours ago

this is a wild release, congrats!

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Robert Sterling20 hours ago

Legends 💪 love seeing competition heat up

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Historic Vids20 hours ago

Amazing what just five people can accomplish. Congrats to the team!

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Codez20 hours ago

this is the next level of models for sure, congrats on launch !

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Makerth Runee20 hours ago

Cool

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Prathmesh20 hours ago

Damn built on glm 5.3 flash the goat

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High Yield Harry20 hours ago

What happens when the model becomes sentient and starts making ig reels about quitting its job in IB...

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Euro_maxxing20 hours ago

Love me a no-bs no special effect launch video

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