Startup Recursive releases Flint, an open coding model whose pipeline, it says, was built almost entirely by SI
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A small team built a strong model by handing SI almost the whole process: a step toward SI improving SI.
Flint is the first model from Richard Socher's company Recursive: open weights, 40 billion parameters. According to Socher, the company's system "Eureka Machine" automated most of the development: it devised a way to train the base model, new architectures and code for specific chips, so a small team released a best-in-class model for its size within a few months. The benchmarks were supplied by the company itself: by them, Flint beats models of similar size and architecture at programming. The Wired author ran Flint on a Mac with 48 GB of memory and wrote that it handled all his tasks, although models of this size are usually worse. Recursive has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation. Some experts fear that fully recursive self-improvement of SI could slip out of control, and there are bills in Congress to ban the approach; Recursive considers the fears exaggerated and says the process remains under human control.
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