Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI

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Recursive launched Flint, a free coding model built mostly by AI, which runs on laptops.
- Recursive's AI system built Flint in under four months.
- Flint is a small coding model that runs on laptops, not cloud servers.
- Flint uses 2.5 billion parameters, making it smaller than other models.
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