Ultramarine 1 Flash is an open, production-oriented large language model optimized for professional knowledge work across finance, law, consulting, and operations. Benchmarked on multiple suites (JobBench, PI Knowledge Work, FrontierFinance, AutomationBench, DiligenceBench, APEX-Agents), it posts top or near-top scores (e.g., JobBench 62.9, PI Knowledge Work 59.3) while running at a fraction of competitor cost: about $0.13 per task, roughly 60x cheaper than high-end Fable-class offerings and outperforming Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on cost-quality tradeoffs. Compared against GLM-5.3 Flash, Ultramarine generates 6.5% fewer output tokens (30.5M vs 32.7M across the six benchmarks), improving token efficiency while sharing the same per-million-token API pricing.
Design choices emphasize client-readiness: tasks include delivering finished Excel workbooks, PowerPoint decks, and Word documents and interacting with live business systems (ERP/MES), with rubric scoring for substance, accuracy, and presentation. Prose is described as clean and hierarchically organized to match analyst standards; an example slide reconstructs multi-period Nucor segment sales and reconciled subtotals. Model weights are forthcoming, and an API, technical report, and code links are provided for integration and evaluation.
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