StudioRecursive Launches Flint, a Laptop-Run Coding Model Built Largely by AI
Original title: Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Recursive has released Flint, its first free coding model designed to run offline on laptops. The company states that its development was assisted at nearly every step by an automated research system called Eureka Machine, allowing a small team to build it from scratch in under four months. Flint is a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 40 billion total parameters but only 2.5 billion activated per inference, generating approximately 131 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro—roughly twice the speed of Gemma 4 and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on the same device. It outperforms other models under 50 billion parameters on SWE-Bench Verified. Licensed under Apache 2.0 and available for free on Hugging Face, the company acknowledges that Flint requires more guidance than large paid coding assis…
The report provides specific performance metrics, licensing details, and insights into the AI-assisted R&D methodology, enabling readers to evaluate claims regarding offline coding capabilities and self-improvement.
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