Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model largely built by AI

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA startup called Recursive has released Flint, a free coding model small enough for a laptop, and it says an AI research system built most of it, TechCrunch reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's called the Eureka Machine, and it helped with nearly every step.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA small team made Flint from scratch in under four months, and I'd love to know which of those months the humans were in.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo what did the people do?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThey pressed go, mostly.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFlint has forty billion settings but only uses two and a half billion at a time, so it's a very large brain that only thinks with the front bit.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd it's free. You download it from a place called Hugging Face.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe speed numbers are Recursive's own, and so are the benchmark results. No independent lab, Startup Fortune says.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe machine's report card was marked by its parents.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHashtag Supervised.