Key Info

Cline announced that Flint, a small MoE model with roughly 2B active parameters, scores 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and can be run locally inside Cline through Ollama.

Highlights

  • Flint reaches 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ahead of other small MoE models and two of three dense ~30B models, per Cline.
  • It requires about 24GB of memory and runs at 125+ tok/s on a MacBook Pro.
  • Users can install Cline via npm i -g cline or the desktop app, configure local models through Ollama, then install Flint.
  • Cline frames this as a sign of a coming breakout in local model capabilities.