Brief, mostly signal
Recursive's Flint is a laptop coding model it says AI largely built
The free Apache 2.0 model has 2.5B active of 40B parameters and runs on Hugging Face. The speed claims are self-reported.
What the research found
Recursive released Flint on Oct 21 2026 as a free model on Hugging Face; the 131 tokens per second speed figure is the company's own test on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro, and the Apache 2.0 license claim was not confirmed in the cached text.
Claims and how well the evidence supports them
- Flint was released Oct 21 2026 on Hugging Face 7%
- Flint generates about 131 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro M4 Pro in company tests 99%
- Flint has 2.5B active of 40B parameters 97%
Evidence
- techcrunch.com https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/recursive-launches-flint-a-laptop-coding-model-it-says-was-largely-built-by-ai
Actionability rated medium.