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Recursive releases open-weight local coding model Flint

On October 21, 2026, Recursive Superintelligence released Flint, an open-weight local coding model. According to related reports, Flint is a 40B mixture-of-experts model that activates approximately 2.5B parameters per token, is licensed under Apache 2.0, and its weights have been made available on Hugging Face; it was built from scratch in under 4 months by the automated research system Eureka Machine. On October 22, Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf commented that Recursive researchers quantized the lm_head—which is usually recommended to be kept at high precision—to 4 bits, and the result differed from bf16 by only 0.7 percentage points. On the same day, OpenRouter launched Flint, saying it is aimed at coding agents, supports a 262K context, reasoning, and tool calling, and is free to use during the launch period; Unsloth released a Dynamic GGUF quantized version of Flint, saying it can run locally on devices with 24GB of memory. The model now offers multiple usage paths through open weights, hosting platforms, and quantized versions.