Recursive's Flint: a free coding model that runs offline on your laptop

Recursive, the AI lab led by Richard Socher, released Flint, an open-weight coding model (free under the Apache 2.0 licence) that you download and run on your own machine, and says it was largely built by its own automated research system in under four months. It claims more than 125 tokens a second on a MacBook Pro and best-in-class results for its size; those are Recursive's own benchmarks, and you'll need a well-specced machine, as the compressed version is about 23GB.

Why it mattersA capable model that runs locally means client code or sensitive data never leaves your laptop, and there's no usage bill. It's a good fit for privacy-conscious freelancers and agencies, less so if you're on a basic laptop.

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