New downloadable models widen local choice, with very different commercial terms
Flint, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Liquid’s LFM3 and NVIDIA’s Nemotron Bolt add self-hosting options, but hardware needs and licence conditions make them distinct purchasing decisions.
Recursive’s Flint, released on October 21, is a 40-billion-parameter coding model that activates roughly 2.5 billion parameters at a time.
Its weights are available under Apache 2.0. The smaller active count helps explain its design for local coding agents; it does not mean the full model occupies only 2.5 billion parameters of memory. Recursive’s speed figures depend on specified hardware, quantization and runtime. [1][2]
MiniMax’s M3.1 Flash has also crossed from a hosted offering to downloadable files. Its model repository records an October 23 initial upload and contains the weight shards, with a displayed repository size of about 252 GB. That is a consequential release for teams able to host it, rather than a claim that the full model fits an ordinary laptop. [3][4]
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- Recursive — Introducing Flint
Architecture and vendor measurements; release date cross-checked with OpenHands.
- Recursive — Flint model repository
Apache 2.0 model card and actual files inspected.
- MiniMax — M3.1 Flash model repository
Model card and downloadable release.
- MiniMax — commit history and files
Initial upload October 23; file tree separately inspected, approximately 252 GB.
- MiniMax — M3.1 Flash licence
Commercial attribution and notice; prior authorization above $20m yearly revenue generated by covered products/services, not total company revenue. Reopened October28.
- Liquid — October 27 LFM3 announcement listing
Dated release listing; full launch page exceeded the retrieval size limit.
- Liquid — LFM3-1.7B model card
Text-model scope, footprint estimate and limitations.
- Liquid — LFM Open License
Legal-entity scope includes affiliates. Summary says exceeds $10m while threshold definition says $10m or more; exact-boundary permission is not assumed. Reopened October28.
- NVIDIA — Nemotron Bolt release
October 23 release and intended device footprint.
- NVIDIA — Nemotron Bolt model card
Quantization, model provenance and OpenMDW 1.1 terms.
- OpenMDW — licence 1.1
Underlying permission and notice obligations inspected.
- OpenHands — Flint availability
October 21 integration report; a launch partner, not an independent performance replication.
- MiniMax weight files
Repository file tree inspected for uploaded shards and approximately 252 GB total; storage is not a runtime-memory estimate.
Images & figures
Each licence measures its own conditions. MiniMax uses yearly revenue from covered products or services; Liquid uses the legal entity, including affiliates. Liquid’s exact $10m boundary is inconsistent in the source and needs confirmation. Other terms still apply.
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