Recursive Bets on RSI: Its Eureka Machine Built the Flint Coding Model in Months

mikeflache · x · 2026-10-22

WIRED profiles Recursive, Richard Socher's startup all-in on recursive self-improvement. Its Eureka Machine automated most of the pipeline for Flint, an open-weight coding model—devising new base-model training methods, architectures, and chip-optimized code—letting a handful of researchers build a world-class model in months. Benchmarks show Flint beating similar-size peers on coding.

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