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Recursive is a research-first frontier AI company. Flint is its first public model, and its open weights provide a concrete artifact for evaluating its automated model-development approach; benchmark comparisons are company-reported.

San Francisco, USFounded 2025No public API trackedWeekly review target

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Weekly review target

Released Recursive Flint on October 21, 2026, an Apache-2.0 open-weight local coding model developed with its automated Eureka Machine research system.

Focus: Automated AI research and local open-weight coding models

Latest funding

More than $650M

Series A · source-backed

Tracked funding

$650M

Sum of itemized funding events

Latest valuation

Not tracked

No source-backed record

Latest revenue

Not tracked

Research lifecycle position

Editorially verified updates

What changed

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model release

Recursive releases Flint local coding model

Recursive released Flint, an Apache-2.0 open-weight mixture-of-experts model for local coding, and described its automated Eureka Machine development process; performance comparisons are company-reported.

Recursive · Read source ↗Source published Oct 21, 2026Added to map Oct 21, 2026

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Last checked Nov 2, 2026.

Source-backed financial history

Funding and financial history

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partial coverage · 1 record

Records

1

Sum of recorded funding

$650M

Coverage

partial

Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.

#1

Series A · More than $650M

Running tracked total: $650M

Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.

Product surface

Products and model families

Recent models

Recursive Flint

Products

Recursive FlintEureka Machinerec inference engine

Open weights

Yes

API access

No

Review target

Weekly

Market position

Lifecycle and strategic signals

Research

Preview

Growth

Deployment

Research: Early research & prototypes

Focus

Automated AI research and local open-weight coding models

Signals

Frontier researchOpen weightsCodingAutomated AI research

Taxonomy

Open Weight LabsAgentic Coding ToolsResearchOpen sourceCoding agents

Competitive context

MagicPrime IntellectArcee AI

Infrastructure & distribution

Where Recursive sits in the AI stack

Model / product operator
01

Model layer

1 tracked model family

02

Access layer

Self-hostable weights

03

Market layer

Frontier Labs

Public product surface

Recursive FlintEureka Machinerec inference engine

Stack signals

ResearchOpen sourceCoding agentsFrontier researchOpen weightsCodingAutomated AI research

This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.

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