Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI

Recursive released Flint, a free coding model that runs on a laptop and was built largely with the help of its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, letting a small team build it from scratch in under four months. Flint is a mixture-of-experts model using 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters at a time, is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, and in Recursive's tests generated about 131 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip. The company says the longer-term goal is for the Eureka Machine to achieve full recursive self-improvement, with humans overseeing the process.