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The interesting part here is not the 40B figure but the 2.5B active parameters — sparse MoE is what makes large weights practical on a laptop, and 125 tok/s on an M4 Pro is genuinely usable speed for agentic coding loops. If the 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified survives independent replication, local coding agents stop being a demo and become a real workflow option. Apache 2.0 licensing also removes the last excuse for enterprises that want coding help without shipping proprietary code to a cloud. Caveats apply: vendor-reported benchmarks with custom scaffolding deserve skepticism, and 'for agents' tuning is only as good as the harness around it. Still, this is exactly the segment — open-weight, efficient, specialized — where smaller labs can outmaneuver the giants.
Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weight 40B MoE Local Coding Model for Agents with 2.5B Active Params
Recursive has released Flint, an Apache 2.0 local coding model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters. It reports 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 125+ tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. The post Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weigh…

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