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LM Studio says Recursive’s Flint coding model is available in its app from launch, with about 24GB of memory needed to run it locally. That gives developers a concrete way to try an open-weight model built for agentic coding without relying on a hosted service.
Why it mattersLM Studio describes Flint as Apache 2.0-licensed, with 40 billion total parameters, 2.5 billion active and a 262,000-token context window. It also says the model performs impressively on benchmarks, but provides no figures here. The useful detail is the local-memory requirement: promising claims are one thing, fitting the model on your machine is another.
Discuss: Would a roughly 24GB local-memory requirement make you try an open coding model, or do hosted tools still offer the better trade-off?
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