FreeLLMFlint: 40B parameters, free to download
Flint by RecursiveSI came out on 21 Oct 2026, with open weights on Hugging Face. At 4-bit it needs about 27 GB of memory.
What the video says
A new free AI model with 40 billion parameters.
It comes from RecursiveSI, with open weights.
Can your PC run it? At 4-bit it needs about 27 gigabytes. You need at least an RTX 5090.
It reads up to 256 thousand tokens at once.
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Hardware
Memory at 4-bit with an 8K context, from our simulator. To check your own setup, use the Run at home simulator.
- RTX 4090 (24 GB): too small to hold it · Amazon ↗
- RX 7900 XTX (24 GB): too small to hold it · Amazon ↗
- Flint: about 27 GB at 4-bit · smallest home machine that holds it: RTX 5090 (32 GB) · Amazon ↗
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Every number in this post comes from the FreeLLMArena data on 23 Oct 2026: Arena votes, Hugging Face sizes and our speed simulator. Download the video and its subtitles.
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