[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-recursive-releases-flint-a-free-coding-model-for-laptops":10,"sections":49},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":48,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":48,"total_tokens":48},12283,"recursive-releases-flint-a-free-coding-model-for-laptops","Recursive Releases Flint, a Free Coding Model for Laptops","Recursive Superintelligence says its automated research system helped build nearly every part of Flint, a free coding model that runs on a laptop.","Recursive Superintelligence, a startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model: Flint, a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop.\n\nThe company announced Flint on Wednesday and published the weights on Hugging Face. Weights are the trained numerical settings that make up a model, so anyone can download them and run the model locally. Recursive said its own automated research system helped build nearly every part of Flint. That is the company's description of its own work, and the announcement as provided does not say which parts, or how much human oversight was involved.\n\nThe release matters for two reasons that are easy to blur together. Small coding models that run on ordinary hardware are a crowded category, and a free download is the price of entry. The more unusual claim is about process: that software did much of the research and engineering that people usually do.\n\nThat claim is also narrower than the company's name suggests. Using an automated system to help build a model is not the same as a model rewriting itself in a loop. Flint is the output of one process, not proof that the process compounds.\n\nThe source gives no benchmark scores, parameter count, or comparison with rival models. Without them, the first outside tests of Flint will decide whether this is a competitive coding tool or mainly a demonstration of how it was made.","[\"coding-models\",\"open-weight\",\"recursive-superintelligence\",\"local-ai\"]","2026-10-23T13:29:46.000Z","2026-10-23T15:35:36.985Z","2026-10-23T15:35:37.208Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The source says only that Recursive announced Flint 'on Wednesday', so the specific date 'October 21' is unsupported and must be removed or replaced with wording the source backs (e.g., 'on Wednesday'); also make clear that the missing benchmark and parameter details reflect a truncated source rather than a confirmed absence.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Fix the dek, which says the automated system 'built nearly all of Flint' when the source and your own body say it 'helped build nearly every part'; change it to 'helped build nearly every part' so the dek matches the body and source.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The dek now correctly says 'helped build nearly every part', but the body gives the announcement date as 'October 21' when the source says only 'Wednesday' and gives no date, so remove the invented date or use 'Wednesday'.","ai",[40,41,42,43],"coding-models","open-weight","recursive-superintelligence","local-ai",[45],{"name":46,"url":47},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Frecursive-flint-local-coding-model-eureka-machine",0,{"sections":50},[51,55,60,65,70,75,79,84,89,94,99,104,109,114],{"name":52,"slug":38,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"AI",7073,"2026-10-23T15:49:07.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Security","security",1061,"2026-10-23T16:14:35.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Policy","policy",579,"2026-10-23T15:42:26.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Deals","deals",569,"2026-10-23T14:43:38.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",292,"2026-10-23T16:37:03.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":73,"latest_published_at":78},"Hardware","hardware","2026-10-23T16:04:04.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Science","science",217,"2026-10-23T16:13:16.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Startups","startups",148,"2026-10-23T16:26:29.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Software","software",142,"2026-10-23T00:09:58.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"General","general",100,"2026-10-23T13:36:50.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":110,"slug":111,"count":112,"latest_published_at":113},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":115,"slug":116,"count":117,"latest_published_at":118},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]