Ollama Introduces Flint for Coding Tasks

What happened

Ollama has introduced Flint, a new tool that combines Recursive's coding model to assist with tasks like understanding code, tracing bugs, and implementing features. The tool is available for use on macOS and is expected to support other GPUs in future releases.

The release includes a changelog that outlines updates from version v0.40.7 to v0.40.8, highlighting the integration of Recursive's model into Ollama's library.

Why it matters

Flint is designed for coding agents working across repositories, enabling tasks such as adding tests and implementing features. Its ability to support reasoning and multi-turn tool use makes it suitable for handling complex coding tasks.

Key details

Flint operates with a 262K-token context window, allowing it to handle longer tasks across multiple files. The model is based on a 40B-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture, with approximately 2.5B parameters active per token.

The model is licensed under Apache 2.0 and has achieved scores of 54.9% on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 evaluation and 74.2% on the SWE-bench Verified test.