Recursive's Eureka Machine ships Flint, a 40B MoE coding model, in four months
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-22
AI startup Recursive unveiled Flint, its first language model: a 40-billion-parameter MoE for local coding, built by former DeepMind researchers. The model was created in four months by the company's in-house "Eureka Machine," which independently tests and optimizes architectures — the first result of its automated research pipeline. Whether this approach actually leads to self-improving AI remains unproven.
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