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

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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

Meta’s 816B Muse Spark Open Runs on Two Mac Studios, and Apple Is Cheering

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Meta’s 816B Muse Spark Open Runs on Two Mac Studios, and Apple Is Cheering

Meta has published Muse Spark Open, an open-weights model with 816 billion parameters that the company says can be served from a pair of linked M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple’s MLX framework. The release landed on October 15 on Meta Superintelligence Labs’ blog, and Apple followed with a technical report detailing its own distributed-inference … Read more