MATRIX · Recursive Flint https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/projects/recursive-flint/ Material changes in AI models, agents, engineering and infrastructure, with primary sources and recommendations. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:00 GMT Recursive releases Flint as an open-weight sparse coding model https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/events/ev-20261021-12/ ev-20261021-12-published Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:37:30 GMT New TRIAL <p>Recursive released Flint, a 39.8B-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model with about 2.5B active parameters per token and a 262K context window. BF16 weights are Apache-2.0, with SGLang and vLLM instructions; Ollama 0.40.8 adds a roughly 23 GB package for macOS. Other Ollama GPU support is promised later, and benchmarks remain publisher-run.</p><p><strong>Why read: </strong>Apache-2.0 weights and Ollama/vLLM paths make a controlled local coding-model comparison possible now.</p><p>Recommendation: TRIAL</p><p>Sources: <a href="https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.40.8">Ollama 0.40.8 release</a> · <a href="https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint">Recursive Flint model card</a> · <a href="https://ollama.com/library/flint">Ollama Flint library page</a></p>