Recursive launches Flint, a free coding model it says AI helped build
The model runs on a laptop and was built in under four months with its Eureka Machine research system.
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The short version
- Recursive released Flint, its first model, on Wednesday as a free coding model that runs on a laptop.
- The company says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, helped with nearly every step of Flint's development.
- Flint has 40 billion parameters but uses only 2.5 billion at a time, and it is free to download on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.
- In Recursive's tests, Flint generated about 131 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro with Apple's M4 Pro chip.
Why it matters
The launch is an early public test of recursive self-improvement, the idea that AI can build better AI. For developers, it offers a small model that runs offline and keeps code private, though the company says it needs more guidance than large paid coding assistants.
“that let a small team build the model from scratch in under four months.”