AINewsnow

Recursive Just Open-Sourced a 40B Coding Model — Should It Be in Your Agent Stack?

This story is from 2026-10-22. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

Yesterday, a small lab called Recursive dropped Flint: a 40-billion-parameter coding model with open weights, an Apache 2.0 license, and a launch price of exactly zero on OpenRouter. The benchmarks they reported are the kind that make you raise an eyebrow — SWE-bench Verified at 74.2%, SWE-bench Pr…

Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-10-22 15:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Recursive Just Open-Sourced a 40B Coding Model — Should It Be in Your Agent Stack?

More stories

  1. OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet — Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
  2. Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent — The Verge AI
  3. Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as bank steps up AI adoption — Financial Times AI
  4. NVIDIA Unveils Minerva to Bring End-to-End Observability for AI Factories — NVIDIA Blog
  5. Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more — Techmeme
  6. Running Frontier-Class AI Models Across 8 NVIDIA DGX Spark Nodes — NVIDIA Technical Blog
  7. Agents on Live Hardware: Reason Where You Must, Engineer Everywhere Else — CoreWeave Blog
  8. From Training to Serving: Reflection’s Beam on CoreWeave — CoreWeave Blog

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →