Recursive releases Flint, an open local coding agent model

Summary

Startup Recursive has released Flint, an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts model for agentic coding with 40 billion total parameters and about 2.5 billion active per token, tuned to run on personal hardware. With its optimized inference stack it generates over 125 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro, so coding agents can run locally without sending data to a remote server. Its 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 are the company's own evaluations, and Recursive says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, helped build the model in under four months.

Why it matters for our work

A capable coding agent that runs on a laptop removes the cloud API dependency, opening agent-based development to teams whose code or data cannot leave the machine. The benchmark numbers are company-measured and await independent verification.

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