flint
flint is Update- I appreciate @tydsh and @josh_tobin_ reaching out and highlighting the chat template aspect which appears related, and means I can't run these tests wit. It is ranked #6310 on the AI Radar, in Open & local models, first seen 15 days ago and shared in 9 posts (26.9k views).
What flint says about itself
Text Generation model with 40B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.
RecursiveSI/flint · Hugging Face Hugging Face Log In Sign Up ","eos_token":"<|end_of_text|>"},"chat_template_jinja":"{%- macro flint_text(t) -%}\n{%- if t is string -%}\n{{- t | replace(\"\\x00\", \"\") | replace(\"<think>\", \"\") | replace(\"</think>\", \"\") | replace(\"<|begin_of_text|>\", \"<|begin_of_text|>\") | replace(\"<|end_of_text|>\", \"<|end_of_text|>\") | replace(\"<|system|>\", \"<|system|>\") | replace(\"<|developer|>\", \"<|developer|>\") | replace(\"<|user|>\", \"<|user|>\") | replace(\"<|assistant|>\", \"<|assistant|>\") | replace(\"<|observation|>\", \"<|observation|>\") -}}\n{%-…
What people said about flint on X
Flint 40B A2B, round 2: Reasoning on, recommended settings, much more room to work. Thanks again to @tydsh and @josh_tobin_ from @Recursive_SI for reaching out with the intended config. Flint did improve, and now completes all work. But when I gave two other 35B MoEs the same budget, they improved too. PA Core…
— @PaulGugAI, 12 days ago · 23 likes · see the post
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flint in numbers
- Rank on the AI Radar: #6310 of 10410
- Shared in 9 posts by 7 accounts: @PaulGugAI
- 26.9k views on those posts
- First seen 15 days ago, last shared 12 days ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: open source
- Market: Open & local models
FAQ
What is flint?
Update- I appreciate @tydsh and @josh_tobin_ reaching out and highlighting the chat template aspect which appears related, and means I can't run these tests wit It was first shared on X 15 days ago and is ranked #6310 on the AI Radar.
Is flint free?
It is open source.
Who shared flint?
7 accounts on X, including @PaulGugAI, in 9 posts totalling 26.9k views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 65.6k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 14 days, 10.4k tools, 19 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-11-06 16:05 UTC. Full method.