You.com Founder's Flint Is a Local Coding Model Built From Scratch in Under 4 Months
ChengleiSi · x · 2026-10-22
Richard Socher's Recursive AI launched Flint, its first model: a fast local coding model built with the automated 'Eureka Machine' research system from scratch in under 4 months. It delivers 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro and 150+ on RTX Spark—up to 2x faster than comparable models—with open weights on Hugging Face for private, unmetered local use.
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