Recursive's Eureka Machine Built Coding Model Flint Almost Entirely With AI in Under 4 Months
_rockt · x · 2026-10-22
WIRED profiles Recursive, a startup betting on recursive self-improvement (RSI), and its first open-weight coding model Flint.
- CEO Richard Socher says nearly every part of the model pipeline was built and improved by AI via their Eureka Machine.
- The system produced its own innovations: a new base-model training approach, new architectures, and silicon-optimized code.
- Shared benchmarks suggest Flint beats similar-size coding models; a tiny team shipped it in under 4 months.
- The piece argues AI-built-AI is getting closer, with Recursive claiming the benefits outweigh the risks.
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