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Recursive debuts Flint, a laptop coding model built largely by its own AI system

Startup Recursive released Flint, a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop, built in under four months with heavy assistance from the company's automated research system, the Eureka Machine. The model is a mixture-of-experts design using 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters per task, and is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-21

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.

wired.com · 2026-10-21

Richard Socher's new book argues AI will drive scientific discovery, not just chatbots

AI researcher Richard Socher has released a book titled 'The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries.' The book outlines his view that converging AI technologies will enable a new wave of scientific breakthroughs, moving beyond conversational chatbots as the technology's main application.

fastcompany.com · 2026-10-18