Flint Puts a 40B Coding Model on Local Hardware — and an AI-Built Backstory

Flint Puts a 40B Coding Model on Local Hardware — and an AI-Built Backstory

Recursive Superintelligence, the startup chasing self-improving AI, published Flint on 21 October: a coding model with open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence. The artefact itself is straightforward to assess — compact, fast and free to download. The story wrapped around it is not. Recursive says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, did nearly … Read more

EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Five-Modal AI Search Directly on Your Smartphone

EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Five-Modal AI Search Directly on Your Smartphone

Google DeepMind has launched EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter multimodal embedding model engineered to run entirely on the device rather than in the cloud. The model maps text, code, images, video and audio into a single 768-dimensional vector space, so an application can compare a voice memo against a video clip or a written query against … Read more