Definition
Flint is recursive’s open-weight (Apache 2.0) mixture-of-experts language model optimized for local agentic coding on laptop-class hardware.
Key Points
- ~40B total parameters, ~2.5B active per token; 49-layer decoder MoE
- Release benchmarks (vendor): SWE-bench Pro v2 89.7%, SWE-bench Verified 74.2%, Terminal-Bench 2.1 54.9%
- NVFP4 weights ~23GB; marketed >125 tok/s on Apple M4 Pro and >150 tok/s on RTX Spark (short context)
- Built in under four months with eureka-machine assistance
Benchmarks and throughput claims are from Recursive release materials; independent replication pending.