Recursive introduced Flint, a free programming model that runs locally on laptops

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Recursive has released Flint, a free open-weights coding model that runs locally on consumer hardware. Built largely using the automated Eureka Machine research system in under four months, Flint uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.5 billion active parameters from 40 billion total. Availa…