Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
- Who
- Recursive
- What
- released Flint, a free coding model that runs on a laptop
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The company, which is trying to build AI that can improve itself, released its first model, Flint , on Wednesday.
What happened
Recursive released Flint, a free coding model for laptops that it says a small team built from scratch in under four months with help from its Eureka Machine research system. Available on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, Flint activates 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters per task. Recursive reports about 131 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro, while acknowledging that Flint needs more guidance than large paid coding assistants.
The story so far
Recursive released Flint, a coding model for laptops that is free to download on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows free use and modification. The company says a small team built the model from scratch in under four months with help from its Eureka Machine research system. Flint activates 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters per task. Recursive reports that it generates about 131 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro, while acknowledging that it needs more guidance than large paid coding assistants.
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