{"type":"post","id":"model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d","slug":"model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d","title":"[Model] Add Flint (RecursiveSI/flint)","description":"vLLM merged support for Recursive’s Flint model, including BF16 and NVFP4 GGUF checkpoints and kernels tuned for small-batch inference on a single Blackwell GPU.","retrieval_nugget":"vLLM merged support for Recursive’s Flint model, including BF16 and NVFP4 GGUF checkpoints and kernels tuned for small-batch inference on a single Blackwell GPU. The pull request reports a 2.7× improvement in one NVFP4 decode benchmark against stock vLLM layers, but the result is specific to a GB200 and does not generalize to every serving setup.","published_at":"2026-11-04","updated_at":"2026-11-04","record_date":"2026-11-04","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["inference"],"entities":["vLLM","Recursive","Flint","NVIDIA GB200"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Adds implementation details for vLLM’s Flint support: both BF16 and NVFP4 GGUF checkpoints, Flint-specific kernels, and architecture and numerical behavior.","prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/62938","source_urls":["https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/62938"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/model-add-flint-recursivesi-flint-bcba9d.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/inference/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/inference/","title":"Inference","reason":"Explore the inference topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/inference.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/inference.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}