Recursive releases Flint, a free laptop coding model built largely by AI
Original title: Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Flint activates 2.5 billion of 40 billion parameters and is free on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
Recursive released Flint, a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. The company says its Eureka Machine research system helped with nearly every step, letting a small team build the model from scratch in under four months. Flint is a mixture-of-experts model that uses 2.5 billion of 40 billion parameters at a time and is published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
Unconfirmed: Speed and benchmark figures are Recursive’s own tests, and the company did not quantify time saved by Eureka.
- Recursive says Eureka contributed to pre-training, post-training, and inference.
- The startup left stealth in May with $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation.
- Recursive measured about 131 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro.
- On its six-test average, only Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 27B scored higher than Flint.
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Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
By Aditya Mehta · techcrunch.com
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