Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight local coding model

Recursive (@Recursive_SI) announced Flint on X on October 21, calling it its first model: a fast coding model meant to run on a user's own machine. The post, by Richard Socher, says it was built with the company's automated research system, the Eureka Machine, and from scratch in under four months.

Claims from the announcement, not independently measured:

• "Best-in-class fast local coding", up to 2x faster than comparable models.
• Over 125 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro and over 150 on an RTX Spark.

The open weights are on Hugging Face and can be run with local frameworks. Flint can also be tried for free on OpenCode and Pi.