Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI

Key points

• Recursive Superintelligence has released Flint, its first model.2
• The Recursive Flint local coding model is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters.2
• Resoundingly beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B in TerminalBench 2.1 and SWE-bench Pro v2 (see HF repo for table), ties or betters it in the other benchmarks they chose to show.3
• I think it might finally dethrone the venerable Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and move the needle on coding agents for the GPU-poor.3

Sources (3)

• [1]Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
  TechCrunch: AI · Oct 21, 08:27 PM

  Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

• [2]Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weight 40B MoE Local Coding Model for Agents with 2.5B Active Params
  MarkTechPost · Oct 21, 10:39 PM

  Recursive Superintelligence has released Flint, its first model.

  The Recursive Flint local coding model is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters.

• [3]Recursive Flint - the "Qwen3.8 35B" we've all been waiting for?
  r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 21, 10:55 PM

  Resoundingly beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B in TerminalBench 2.1 and SWE-bench Pro v2 (see HF repo for table), ties or betters it in the other benchmarks they chose to show.

  I think it might finally dethrone the venerable Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and move the needle on coding agents for the GPU-poor.

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