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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Recursive.\n\n## What Yuandong builds\n\n- [Recursive Flint](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.md), graded C, 61/100, in Open-weight models. Recursive Flint is Recursive's open-weight mixture-of-experts coding model for agents, 39.8B total and about 2.5B active parameters, with reasoning, tool calling and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Recursive, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Alexey Dosovitskiy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alexey-dosovitskiy/), Co-founder, Recursive\n- [Caiming Xiong](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/caiming-xiong/), Co-founder, Recursive\n- [Jeff Clune](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-clune/), Co-founder, Recursive\n- [Josh Tobin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/josh-tobin/), Co-founder, Recursive\n- [Richard Socher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/richard-socher/), Co-founder and CEO, Recursive\n- [Tim Rocktäschel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-rocktaschel/), Co-founder, Recursive\n- [Tim Shi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-shi/), Co-founder, Recursive\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Alphabet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alphabet/)\n- [Greycroft](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greycroft/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Yuandong Tian?\n\nYuandong Tian is co-founder of Recursive.\n\n### What does Recursive make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Recursive Flint from Recursive. Recursive Flint is Recursive's open-weight mixture-of-experts coding model for agents, 39.8B total and about 2.5B active parameters, with reasoning, tool calling and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.\n\n### Who has invested in Recursive?\n\nThe sources our research read name Alphabet, Greycroft, NVIDIA and AMD.\n\n### How are Yuandong's tools graded?\n\nRecursive Flint is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://recursive.com/\n- https://recursive.com/updates/introducing-recursive-flint\n- https://recursive.com/updates/the-race-to-superintelligence-with-richard-socher\n- https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Socher\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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