Recursive AI open-sources Flint: a 40B MoE with 2.5B active params that codes fully locally on your Mac
altryne · x · 2026-10-28
Recursive AI, founded by Richard Socher, released Flint, an Apache 2.0 open model with 40B total parameters and only 2.5B active, built to code locally on your Mac.
The full ThursdAI conversation featured Tim Shi and others. Host altryne notes that after this week's agent security mess, an agent that never leaves your machine looks like a feature in itself.
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