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Recursive releases Flint, a local open-weights coding AI

Recursive has launched Flint, an open-weights coding model that can run locally on consumer hardware. This design prioritizes offline use and user data privacy. Developed using the company's Eureka Machine, Flint features a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.5 billion active parameters out of a total of 40 billion, and was created by a small team in under four months. AI

IMPACT Provides developers with a privacy-focused, locally runnable coding assistant.

RANK_REASON Release of an open-weights model from a non-frontier lab. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Recursive releases Flint, a local open-weights coding AI

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · hacksgr ·

    Recursive has released Flint, a free open-weights coding model designed to run locally on consumer hardware, enabling offline use and code privacy. Built largel

    Recursive has released Flint, a free open-weights coding model designed to run locally on consumer hardware, enabling offline use and code privacy. Built largely using the company's automated research system, the Eureka Machine, development took a small team under four months. Fl…