Startup releases AI model largely built by its own AI system

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Recursive has released Flint, a coding model built largely by its own AI research system called the Eureka Machine.

Recursive, an AI startup founded last year, has released Flint, a free coding model designed to run on laptops. The company built it largely using its own AI research system, the Eureka Machine, which automated most elements of the model's development. This allowed a small team to create the model from scratch in under four months.

According to CEO Richard Socher, the Eureka Machine handled nearly every aspect of Flint's pipeline, devising innovations including new ways of training the base model, new model architectures, and code optimised for specific silicon chips. Flint is free to download on Hugging Face under an open-source licence, allowing developers to use it offline and keep their code private without paying usage fees.

Flint represents an early public test of recursive self-improvement: the idea that AI can build better AI, which in turn builds even better AI. Recursive emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding at a $4.65 billion valuation. Some researchers worry that AI improving itself could ultimately slip out of human control, though Recursive's current version remains limited and overseen by people.

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Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AIStartup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.TechCrunch · 21 Oct, 21:27
This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary GoodRecursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.Wired · 21 Oct, 17:00

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