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We’re about to see a breakout in local model capabilities. Flint scores 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with ~2B active parameters. That’s…

@cline · via X · Oct 21, 2026 · 982 engagements

We’re about to see a breakout in local model capabilities. Flint scores 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with ~2B active parameters. That’s ahead of every other small MoE and two of the three dense ~30B models. It only needs about 24GB and runs at 125+ tok/s on a MacBook Pro.

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