Recursive's Flint: a 40B/2.5B-active local coding model built from scratch in under 4 months

timshi_ai · x · 2026-10-22

• Recursive AI (Richard Socher's company) released Flint, built from scratch in under 4 months by its automated research system, the Eureka Machine — billed as best-in-class fast local coding.
• 40B total params / 2.5B active; 125+ tok/s on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark, up to 2x faster than comparable models. Pitch: private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine.
• Open weights on Hugging Face; runs locally or free on opencode / pidot.dev. Ilya Sutskever called it "very impressive."

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