Ex-OpenAI's Josh Tobin ships Flint: sub-50B MoE leads agentic coding, 125 tok/s on M4 Pro
josh_tobin_ · x · 2026-10-22
Josh Tobin (ex-OpenAI Codex team, founder of Recursive) announced Flint, an open-weights model for local agentic coding:
- Leads MoE models under 50B total parameters on agentic coding benchmarks
- Built from scratch in under 4 months by a small team using their automated research system, which helped develop everything from training recipes to inference kernels
- Open weights, runs on your own hardware, no API fees; over 125 tokens/sec on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro at short contexts
- Positioned as a fast, customizable, private, free everyday coding companion
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