Startup Recursive releases Flint, an AI coding model built largely by AI
Recursive, a new AI company led by CEO Richard Socher, has released an open-weight coding model called Flint. Socher says the model was developed using an internal system called the Eureka Machine, which automated much of the training pipeline, including new training methods, architectures, and chip-specific code optimizations, allowing a small team to build the model in a few months. Recursive has published benchmark scores claiming Flint outperforms similarly sized models on coding tasks.