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.
A young Chinese neurotechnology company wiped out U.S. smart prosthetic firms that had boasted about their "advanced prosthetics" for years.
BrainCo’s bionic hand weighs just 383 grams, delivers more than 50N of grip force, interprets neural and muscle signals, and lets users grasp, type, drink, exercise and control the hand almost intuitively.
Western companies made smart prosthetics look like futuristic luxury hardware.
China is turning them into something lighter, stronger, more practical and increasingly manufacturable.
The real disruption is not that China made a better demo.
It is that China is industrializing what others kept presenting as the future.
America marketed the future.
China put it on an arm.
A new UC San Diego paper builds theory of mind into a 7B agent through its training reward, so the agent learns to read a partner’s beliefs and goals and then runs on its own with no extra model at deployment.
LLM agents that negotiate, cooperate or role-play usually guess the other side's goals from prompt text or memory summaries. They keep no explicit estimate of the partner's knowledge or plans, so they can misread intent.
They train a model that infers the partner's beliefs, intents and thoughts, including what the partner thinks of the agent. That model scores candidate replies during RL, and the final agent runs alone without it.
For agents that negotiate or collaborate, train with a reward that judges replies against an inferred model of the partner's goals and beliefs.
– arxiv. org/abs/2610.12453
Title: "Mental-Models for Multi-Agent Systems"
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component