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Automating Scientific Discovery @Recursive_SI. Prev: @GoogleDeepMind | @UBC_CS | @UniofOxford | @SakanaAILabs | @Waymo. The AI Scientist | Genie | SIMA | Gemini
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1/ You can now run a research swarm entirely on your Mac, model included.

Eight agents share one local 40B Flint model on a 48 GB M4 Pro: writing code, testing ideas and building on whatever works.

Give them a problem and a score to beat. Here's how 馃У
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1/ Can a model that runs on a laptop also drive GPU training research?

Recursive Flint, our new 40B open model, improved NanoChat across 700+ experiments鈥攆inishing close to our historical Claude Haiku 4.5 results.

We were pleasantly surprised. Here's what it tried 馃У
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Thanks to our Eureka Machine being put on mac inference + the model design, my MacBook barely makes a sound while churning flint :D
sacha馃 @alexUnder_sky Oct 21
Really handy repository, thank you.

Also, this repository shows how rich AI researchers are: a macbook might risk thermo throttling under heavy loads; and it costs like 3 grand. For such cool demonstration of unified memory, mac mini/studio seems like a better investement
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The automation of science will let us break all human priors.

As we saw in math, the answer was often deceptively simple and under human noses all this time! 馃
Thomas Wolf Verified account @Thom_Wolf Oct 21
My bar for AGI is still an AI winning a Nobel.

But an AI researcher looking at the lm_head (that *everyone* tells you to keep in high precision) deciding to quantize it to 4 bits AND being actually right (0.7pt from bf16) is definitely impressive.

Even better when the result are open-weights pushed on the Hugging Gace hub.

Congrats @Recursive_SI !
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1/ From OpenAI's Navier鈥揝tokes work to AlphaEvolve's faster algorithms, AI research is getting very real.

Now, with Recursive Flint, we can experience that magic locally on our own laptops 馃捇

The whole research loop runs locally with a selection of tasks! Code + demos 馃У