Recursive launches Flint, a laptop-run coding model largely built by AI

Recursive, an AI startup, released Flint, a free coding model capable of running on a laptop. Built largely with its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, in under four months, Flint is a mixture-of-experts model using only 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters at a time. It is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing offline use and code privacy. Flint demonstrated strong performance, outperforming other models under 50 billion parameters on SWE-Bench Verified, and achieved high token generation speeds on various hardware, though it requires more guidance than large paid assistants.