Ultramarine releases 1 Flash open weights with a thesis on open-weight economics
samsja19 · x · 2026-10-29
Ultramarine released the weights of Ultramarine 1 Flash and published notes on open-weight economics. Its bet: post-training is open-ended and closer to traditional software, where taste, judgment, and small teams beat legacy incumbents; across knowledge work, search, and design, intense data-training codesign should outperform the data-vendor outsourcing model of frontier labs.
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