Recursive releases on-device coding model Flint
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On October 22, 2026, TechCrunch reported that AI startup Recursive released its first model, Flint. Flint is a free, open-source coding model that can run offline on a laptop. Recursive said that nearly every step of Flint's development was assisted by its automated research system, Eureka Machine, and stated that the model was built primarily by AI, created from scratch in under four months by a small team of fewer than four people. Only this single report covers the event so far, with no further updates available.
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- TechCrunch · AIRecursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
AI startup Recursive has released its first model, Flint, a free open-source coding model that can run offline on a laptop. The company says nearly every step of its development was assisted by its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, with a small team building it from scratch in under four months.
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