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Richard Socher - Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding m
Recursive · Oct 2026 · 2:41 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 2:41
- Scenes
- 71 · 2.3 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:12
- Features shown
- 4
- Call to action
- 2:33 · 95%
- Voiceover
- Yes
00:00:00 / 02:41:15
Recursive’s 2:41 launch film runs 71 scenes, about 2.3 s each. The product shows up at 0:12 and 4 features are revealed, with social proof. The call to action lands at 2:33 (95% in), over a voiceover. A talking-head launch film for the Flint open-weight model, intercut with kinetic typography and dark-grid data graphics. The style is defined by a dashed layout grid, words that slide and scale on dashed guide lines, gradient benchmark bars with a glowing orange Flint bar, and particle-trail reveals, all cut at a steady 112 bpm pace.
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· 71 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
A man in a black t-shirt stands in a concrete interior with a potted plant at right. A large white name block and a dashed grid overlay hold on the left, then fade as the shot tightens to a close-up of his face.
On-screen text: “Richard Socher”, “Co-Founder & CEO Recursive”
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:01–0:03
A red-haired man in a black tee speaks on the left against a soft green backdrop. On the right, a white lower-third with dashed grid lines shows his name, title and company, then slides out to the right as the shot blurs.
On-screen text: “Richard”, “Co-Founder”, “& CEO”, “Recursive”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:03–0:06
A man in a black logo tee stands in a concrete room as white horizontal bars sweep across the frame, then the word Co-created slides in over his chest and clears.
On-screen text: “Recursive”, “■”, “Co-created”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
04 · Hook · 0:06–0:07
A man in a black T-shirt speaks to camera as the white headline “Co-created” slides across the lower left. A white panel carrying the word vector diagram wipes in from the right, covering him and pushing the headline off frame.
On-screen text: “Co-created”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Masking
Camera: Push in
05 · Hook · 0:07–0:08
A white explainer graphic pans right. The left panel holds a vector diagram linking the words Man, Woman, King and Queen around a center point, framed by the titles Word and Vectors. The right panel slides in showing a grid of dog photos under the heading Image.
On-screen text: “Word”, “Vectors”, “Image”
Camera: Pan
06 · Hook · 0:08–0:09
A 3x3 collage of dog photos sits centered on a white field between two dashed guidelines. The large black words Image and Net slide in from the left and right edges, and a small black chip at the bottom left expands to reveal the word Dog.
On-screen text: “Image”, “Net”, “Dog”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pan
07 · Hook · 0:09–0:09
A dashed layout grid sits on white as the black headline Image slides in above a 3x3 grid of dog photos. The block then swaps to Prompt in black with Engineering in orange, paired with a gray input field.
On-screen text: “Image”, “Net”, “Dog”, “Prompt”, “Engineering”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pan
08 · Hook · 0:09–0:10
A white frame with a dashed grid holds a light-gray card filled with prompt body copy. Giant near-black words Prompt and Engineering slide across the layout while a gray caption Enter your prompt. rests over the card and two right-pointing arrows sit at the edge.
On-screen text: “Prompt”, “Engineering”, “Enter your prompt.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
09 · Hook · 0:10–0:12
A man with short reddish hair and a black t-shirt speaks to camera in a softly blurred interior, a plant and doorframe out of focus behind him. The shot opens hazy and settles into sharp focus.
Camera: Static
10 · Product intro · 0:12–0:16
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt with a white triangle logo stands in a sunlit concrete hall, speaking to camera and gesturing with both hands. The shot blurs into a dark frame cut by a thin white horizontal line.
Techniques: Light sweep
Camera: Static
11 · Product intro · 0:16–0:18
The phrase “our first model” sits centered on a thin horizontal line that flares into a bright white beam. The lettering shifts from copper to white as the line brightens, and the text scales up slightly on a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “our first model”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Light sweep
Camera: Static
12 · Product intro · 0:18–0:18
A plain off-white background with the Flint wordmark and a small paper-plane icon centered. The lockup scales and fades in from empty, locked-off frame, very low contrast.
On-screen text: “our first model”
Camera: Static
13 · Product intro · 0:18–0:19
A faceted pink-red gem icon and the white wordmark Flint sit centered on a dark purple field crossed by a thin dashed line. The background fades from gray to dark, and a small caption, our first model, scales in beside the logo.
On-screen text: “Flint”, “our first model”, “4”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
14 · Product intro · 0:19–0:19
A faceted 3D triangle logo in pink and white sits left of the white wordmark Flint, centered on a thin dashed line over a dark purple field, as a soft glow blooms around both.
On-screen text: “Flint”
Camera: Static
15 · Product intro · 0:19–0:21
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt speaks to camera in a soft-focus room. White words assemble on dashed horizontal lines across the frame, scaling and sliding in to read best open-weight model.
On-screen text: “best”, “open-”, “weight”, “model”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · Product intro · 0:21–0:22
A soft gradient wipe clears to a dark field framed by two thin dashed guide lines. White sans-serif type builds line by line: “for running” slides in, then “a coding agent” drops onto a second line, the dashed frame expanding to hold both.
On-screen text: “open-weight model”, “for running a coding agent”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Masking
Camera: Static
17 · Product intro · 0:22–0:24
A dark purple card holds three centered lines of light-gray sans text that build up one line at a time, then the block slides up and shrinks to the left as a benchmark bar chart fades in on the right.
On-screen text: “for running”, “a coding agent”, “on your laptop”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
18 · Social proof · 0:24–0:24
On a dark dashed grid, two bar charts appear side by side. The left chart, Terminal-Bench 2.1, and the right chart, SWE-bench Pro v2, each show four gradient bars rising above model labels, while a warm horizontal light beam sweeps along the bottom axis.
On-screen text: “Terminal-Bench 2.1”, “Flint benchmark performance · mean@5 · score (%)”, “SWE-bench Pro v2”
Techniques: Split screen, Light sweep
Camera: Pan
19 · Social proof · 0:24–0:26
On a dark gridded background, a strip of benchmark bar charts scrolls left at a steady pace. The Terminal-Bench 2.1 and SWE-bench Pro v2 panels slide past, each with a glowing orange Flint bar leading the pale Qwen and Laguna bars.
Camera: Pan
20 · Social proof · 0:26–0:27
A row of benchmark bar charts scrolls left across a dark grid background. A dashed white outline frames the chart in the center as it passes. The Flint bars glow with an orange gradient while the comparison bars stay white.
On-screen text: “SWE-bench Pro v2”, “SWE-bench Verified”, “LiveCodeBench v6”
Camera: Pan
21 · Social proof · 0:27–0:29
Two benchmark bar charts sit side by side on a dark grid background, the left titled SWE-bench Verified and the right LiveCodeBench v6. White gradient bars with score numbers above each drift slowly to the right, so titles and axis labels overlap as they move.
Camera: Pan
22 · Social proof · 0:29–0:32
A dark grid background hosts a row of benchmark bar charts that slide left across the frame, revealing panels from the right. Each panel compares Flint, Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6 and Laguna; the Flint bar carries a warm orange-to-pink gradient, the others pale lavender, with a soft orange glow at each base.
On-screen text: “LiveCodeBench v6”, “IFBench”, “IFEval”
Camera: Pan
23 · Feature reveal · 0:32–0:35
A red-haired man in a black tee with a white triangle logo stands center frame against a blurred concrete wall, talking and gesturing. Behind him, scattered white and gray pixels coalesce into the number 41, and a dashed white border frames the shot.
On-screen text: “41”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
24 · Feature reveal · 0:35–0:40
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt speaks in a soft-focus green interior, smiling and looking off camera. On the right, three lines of large white text slide in and out in sequence, each aligned to a thin dashed rule.
On-screen text: “how's”, “that even”, “possible?”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
25 · Feature reveal · 0:40–0:42
A white dot on a dark dotted grid draws a curved gray trail, then several white and orange dots join, each leaving a sweeping line that fans out to the right across the frame.
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pull out
26 · Feature reveal · 0:42–0:45
Thin white filament lines with small white and orange dots drift across a dark dotted grid. The frame then falls out of focus as the words Eureka and Machine appear in opposite corners.
On-screen text: “Eureka”, “Machine”
Camera: Pull out
27 · Feature reveal · 0:45–0:47
A dark purple field of flowing white particle trails and drifting dots fills the frame. Eureka scales in at the top left while Machine holds at the bottom right, both sharpening from a soft blur as the trails stream across.
On-screen text: “Eureka”, “Machine”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Particles
Camera: Push in
28 · Feature reveal · 0:47–0:50
A man in a black logo tee stands before a concrete wall, speaking to camera. Large white sans-serif text overlays him: 'Eureka Machine' on either side, then 'beat the best known results' stacked on the right, sliding in over thin dashed horizontal lines.
On-screen text: “Eureka”, “Machine”, “beat”, “the best”, “known”, “results”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
29 · Feature reveal · 0:50–0:55
A white step line draws down a dark grid as orange dots and callout labels pop in; the view pulls back to reveal the full training-time chart with axis dates and a hatched record band, then the frame defocuses.
On-screen text: “beat”, “the best”, “results”
Techniques: Kinetic type, UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
30 · Feature reveal · 0:55–0:57
A man with reddish hair in a black t-shirt speaks to an off-camera interviewer in a medium close-up. The background is a softly blurred green interior with a plant at the right. He holds a steady gaze and talks through the shot.
Camera: Pull out
31 · Feature reveal · 0:57–1:02
A man in a black t-shirt with a white prism logo speaks to camera against a dappled concrete wall. Large white words fill the space around him in two columns, then disappear as he gestures with one hand.
On-screen text: “We”, “wanted”, “to”, “know”, “can it”, “produce”, “a better”, “model”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
32 · Feature reveal · 1:02–1:04
A man with reddish hair in a black tee talks in a softly lit office, the background blurred with a plant at right. The white lowercase word vibes sits at the right, and a small circle with an x pops in beside it. Dashed crosshair guides cross the frame.
On-screen text: “vibes”
Camera: Static
33 · Feature reveal · 1:04–1:05
A man in a black t-shirt with a white prism logo stands centered against a blurred concrete wall, speaking to camera. White lowercase captions read “so we” left and “asked” right, with “vibes” and a checkmark lower right. The frame stays locked-off.
On-screen text: “so we”, “asked”, “vibes”
Camera: Static
34 · Feature reveal · 1:05–1:06
On a white background with faint dotted layout grid lines, the words “Eureka Machine” in dark gray sans-serif scale up and drift toward center, growing from mid-size to nearly full frame width over the short clip.
On-screen text: “Eureka Machine”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
35 · Feature reveal · 1:06–1:07
On a white dotted grid, the dark word Machine sits left of four orange double-arrows pointing right, leading to the word Flint. The line scrolls left so Machine exits the frame while Flint scales up toward the right of center.
On-screen text: “Machine”, “Flint”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
36 · Feature reveal · 1:07–1:10
On a white gridded background, the wordmark Flint appears with orange arrows pointing right. The letters scale up as a burst of fine gray lines and small orange and gray dots radiates outward from behind the text.
On-screen text: “Flint”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Particles
Camera: Push in
37 · Feature reveal · 1:10–1:14
A red-haired man in a black tee with a white triangle logo talks and gestures against a sun-dappled concrete wall. The word Flint scales in, then large white lowercase words build line by line over him along thin dashed guide lines.
On-screen text: “Flint”, “many”, “meaningful”, “improvements”, “across”, “the pipeline”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
38 · Feature reveal · 1:14–1:14
On a white background with faint dashed grid lines, the black word data slides from center to the left edge, leaving a motion-blur echo, as a small orange arrow points right from it.
On-screen text: “data”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
39 · Feature reveal · 1:14–1:19
A line of black lowercase text slides left across a white field marked with faint dashed grid lines, orange arrows linking each step: data, pre training, mid training, post training, RL training, infrastructure, inference.
On-screen text: “data”, “pre training”, “mid training”, “post training”, “RL training”, “infrastructure”, “inference”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
40 · Other · 1:19–1:24
A man in a black logo t-shirt stands against a sunlit concrete wall, speaking and gesturing. White lowercase words slide in on either side of him, aligned to a horizontal dashed baseline, spelling out the phrase in sequence.
On-screen text: “inference”, “structure”, “has”, “ever”, “been this”, “automated”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
41 · Other · 1:24–1:26
A man in a black tee speaks to camera on the left while large white words pop in over dashed horizontal guide lines. The words swap from 'been automated' to 'few examples', the word 'few' scaling up in place.
On-screen text: “been”, “automated”, “few”, “examples”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
42 · Other · 1:26–1:27
On a white field with a faint dotted grid, the lowercase word innovations in dark gray sans-serif slides horizontally across the frame as examples slides in to settle center, the words tracking the voiceover. The strip keeps moving, so each word enters from one edge and exits the other.
On-screen text: “few”, “examples”, “innovations”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
43 · Other · 1:27–1:29
A light network of gray and orange nodes on thin lines drifts left across a white dashed grid. The word innovations slides out on the left edge while Speed, with an orange p, slides in on the right beside a black checkmark and diamond.
On-screen text: “innovations”, “Speed”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pan
44 · Feature reveal · 1:29–1:30
On a white field marked with faint dashed grid lines, the lowercase word speed in bold black sans slides in from the left, a zigzag up-arrow icon leading it. The text spans most of the frame height.
On-screen text: “speed”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pan
45 · Feature reveal · 1:30–1:31
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt speaks to camera against a soft-focus green interior, a plant blurred at the right. The word speed slides in oversized across the frame, filling most of the height.
On-screen text: “speed”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
46 · Feature reveal · 1:31–1:34
On a dark gridded background, a square matrix of small gray tiles fills in from the top-left corner via a diagonal wipe, the tiles flickering in varying shades. To the left, the label 40B Parameters holds steady.
On-screen text: “40B”, “Parameters”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Pull out
47 · Feature reveal · 1:34–1:36
A slowly drifting grid of dark rounded squares with scattered orange tiles fills the frame. White label tiles pop in and swap text, first reading 40B Parameters, then ~2B, active, parameters.
On-screen text: “40B”, “Parameters”, “~2B”, “active”, “parameters”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
48 · Feature reveal · 1:36–1:40
A man in a black logo tee talks to camera in a sunlit concrete room, hands gesturing. A white stat line, 10% faster, slides in on the right between two dotted horizontal lines as he keeps speaking.
On-screen text: “~2B active parameters”, “10% faster”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
49 · Feature reveal · 1:40–1:49
A red-haired man in a black T-shirt talks to camera against a blurred green office interior. Large white words from his speech slide and scale in and out across the frame on dashed guide lines, while the camera stays locked off.
On-screen text: “the”, “System”, “invented”, “levels”, “unprecedented”, “of”, “quantization”, “that”, “compress”, “Flint, with loss, almost, no loss, in quality”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
50 · Feature reveal · 1:49–1:51
A red-haired man in a black logo tee stands in a concrete room with a window and potted plant, gesturing with his right hand as he speaks to a locked-off camera. Still captions read 'no loss' then 'in quality'.
On-screen text: “no loss”, “in quality”
Camera: Static
51 · Feature reveal · 1:51–1:56
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt talks to camera against a blurred interior with a plant. White words slide and scale in on dashed horizontal lines, appearing and clearing in sequence to spell out a phrase.
On-screen text: “custom”, “kernels”, “inference”, “code”, “to run”, “Flint”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
52 · Feature reveal · 1:56–1:57
A dark benchmark screen: the header bar reading Apple M4 Pro 48 GiB slides from center to the top while a list of model names with pink-to-orange progress bars and scores fades in below.
On-screen text: “Apple M4 Pro 48 GiB”
Camera: Static
53 · Feature reveal · 1:57–2:00
A dark benchmark chart opens zoomed in and blurred on its bars, then pulls back and sharpens to reveal the full table. Two columns, Short context and Average, list model names with orange bars for Flint and gray bars for peers under Apple M4 Pro and RTX Spark N1X.
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
54 · Feature reveal · 2:00–2:01
A man in a black t-shirt with a white triangle logo stands in a concrete room, gesturing with open palms as he speaks. Dappled sunlight patterns the wall behind him; a potted plant sits at the right edge.
Camera: Static
55 · Feature reveal · 2:01–2:02
On a dark purple grid, white and lavender nodes link up with dashed lines to form a small network. Three model labels slide and scale into place beside the nodes: Qwen3.8 27B at top, Gemma 4 31B at bottom, Muse Glimmer 30B at right.
On-screen text: “Qwen3.8 27B”, “Gemma 4 31B”, “Muse Glimmer 30B”
Camera: Pull out
56 · Feature reveal · 2:02–2:05
A dark benchmark chart opens zoomed in on three model labels, then pulls back to reveal the full plot with its orange frontier line, dashed baseline, legend, and the title “Quality and decode speed on M4 Pro”.
On-screen text: “Quality and decode speed on M4 Pro”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
57 · Demo · 2:05–2:08
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt with a white geometric chest logo stands in a concrete room and talks to camera, gesturing with both hands. A grid of small white dots fades in over the frame, spreading from sparse points into a dense regular pattern.
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pull out
58 · Demo · 2:08–2:13
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt speaks to camera against a soft, blurred green interior. White text reading 'open-ended AI system' fades in on the right in two lines, framed by thin dashed rules.
On-screen text: “open-ended”, “AI system”
Camera: Static
59 · Demo · 2:13–2:13
A dark purple grid background holds a white wireframe of four overlapping lobes, like a spirograph flower, slowly rotating. A small 3D triangular logo spins at its center.
Camera: Static
60 · Demo · 2:13–2:14
On a dark dotted grid, a white 'Ideation' headline hovers above a dome of thin white wireframe lines fanning out from a small tag outline. The whole composition slides downward in a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “Ideation”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
61 · Demo · 2:14–2:15
A thin-line vortex rotates on the left over a dark dotted grid, with a small white geometric logo in the corner. The white heading “Implementation” slides in on the right.
On-screen text: “Implementation”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
62 · Demo · 2:15–2:16
On a dark purple dotted grid, the word Validation slides in at left while a large wireframe line-art shape drifts right and exits; a small triangular logo leaves the top-right corner.
On-screen text: “Validation”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
63 · Demo · 2:16–2:17
A man in a black t-shirt with a small white geometric logo stands center frame, speaking to camera against a blurred concrete wall. Soft dappled light falls on the wall, and a potted plant sits to the right. He gestures with his hands as he talks.
Camera: Static
64 · Demo · 2:17–2:21
On a dark grid, an orange arrow with a dashed trail crosses left to right while two white 3D triangle marks drift aside and small colored dots, squares, Xs and plus signs float, scale in and out.
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pan
65 · Other · 2:21–2:25
A red-haired man in a black tee speaks to camera in a soft-focus interview shot, plant blurred at right. White lowercase caption words appear line by line on the right, synced to his speech, over thin dashed horizontal guides. The frame stays locked off.
On-screen text: “more”, “intelligence”, “per”, “$”, “dollar”, “to”, “our”, “customers”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
66 · Other · 2:25–2:29
A man in a black t-shirt with a white triangle logo stands before a concrete wall, speaking to camera. Large white words pop in one by one along dashed guidelines across the frame, spelling out a sentence while he gestures.
On-screen text: “Today”, “is an”, “important”, “first”, “step”, “toward”, “our vision”, “of”, “recursive”, “to our customers”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
67 · Other · 2:29–2:31
A red-haired man in a black T-shirt speaks to camera against a blurred green interior. Large white lowercase words appear in sequence over thin dashed guide lines: recursive, self-, improving, then super and intelligence.
On-screen text: “recursive”, “self-”, “improving”, “super”, “intelligence”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
68 · Other · 2:31–2:33
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt with a white triangle logo stands against a blurred concrete wall, speaking to camera. Large white sans-serif words slide in and out along three dashed horizontal lines, cycling through the phrases super intelligence, automates, and scientific discovery.
On-screen text: “super”, “intelligence”, “that”, “automates”, “scientific”, “discovery”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
69 · CTA · 2:33–2:37
On a dark purple dotted grid, the white line “Give Flint a try” scales up at center. The line then slides leftward, bringing a cookie emoji, “It's free on”, “Hugging Face” and “openrouter” with their logos into view one after another.
On-screen text: “Give Flint a try”, “It's free on”, “Hugging Face”, “openrouter”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
70 · CTA · 2:37–2:39
A red-haired man in a black t-shirt with a white geometric logo stands centered in a concrete room, dappled light on the wall and a potted plant at right. He smiles at the camera, then raises his right hand in a shaka gesture.
Camera: Pull out
71 · Outro · 2:39–2:41
The white recursive logo, a faceted triangle mark beside the lowercase wordmark, sits centered and still on a dark purple field with a faint grid.
Camera: Static