Recursive releases Flint, a free coding model it says was mostly built by its own AI

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a coding model that is small enough to run on a laptop. The company is offering it for free. Recursive said the model was built largely by its own AI research system rather than mainly by human engineers.

The company presents Flint as an early test of AI that can help improve itself. In Recursive's account, its research system did much of the work that produced the model. Recursive has not been independently shown to have built the model this way.