AI Startup Recursive Releases Flint, an AI-Developed Coding Model for Laptops
AI startup Recursive has launched Flint, a 40-billion parameter coding model designed to run locally on laptops. Developed in under four months using the company's automated research system, the 'Eureka Machine,' Flint is a mixture-of-experts model that optimizes performance by utilizing only a fraction of its parameters for specific tasks. This approach allows it to run efficiently on consumer hardware while maintaining high speeds and privacy. Flint has demonstrated competitive benchmarks, outperforming several models under 50 billion parameters on the SWE-Bench Verified test and showing significantly higher token generation speeds on MacBook Pro and Nvidia hardware compared to similar models. The model is released for free under an Apache 2.0 license via Hugging Face, positioning Recursive as a player in the open-source AI movement.
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