Springboards Launches 'Flint' to Break AI's Habit of Predictable, Boring Answers

Source: The Manila times
Published on: 2026-04-13 10:24

The world's first divergence model expands the creative idea space by maximising the variance of every response SYDNEY and NEW YORK, April 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Springboards today announced the alpha launch of Flint, an AI tool for marketers and creatives designed to generate high-variance options and break out of predictable outputs. Ask any LLM to pick a number between 1 and 10 and you will get a 7 followed by a 3 (or a 4) followed by a 9. This is because all LLMs tend to converge on a narrow set of predictable answers, even for open-ended queries. This makes them good at utility tasks like telling you the capital of France but terrible at creativity and brainstorming, where diverse ideas are essential. Flint has the opposite instincts. It is tuned to explore the model's latent knowledge and surface non-obvious directions quickly, repeatedly, and on demand to inspire better cr...

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