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Cline BlogTools11,840 TPS on a single GPU NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on October 15, and we reached 11,840 aggregate output tokens/sec on one GB300 with 256 concurrent requests .

10.27

Cline BlogToolsBuilding Faster AI Agents with Jev Decision Models and Cline Modern agents are built around a classic loop: send the LLM a prompt, it thinks, it processes, and it responds back through a chat-based API.

10.27

Cline BlogToolsCline Agents Harness Unlocks Benchmark-Leading Performance from NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Open weights models have become the new frontier of achieving intelligence more efficiently, and we are super excited to see how the latest NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model continues to push the…

10.15

Cline BlogToolsCline Desktop: An open-source app for open-weight models Meet Cline Desktop, an early version of our open-source app for open-weight models. Cline started as a VS Code extension and is now used by more than 11 million developers.

09.14

Cline BlogToolsHow We Migrated 11 Million Users to Cline's Biggest Harness Upgrade The Cline extension was first built in 2024, right after Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released. It created one of the very first agentic coding experiences used by millions of developers, but both models…

09.02

Cline BlogToolsDeepSeek wins IMO Gold on 12 cents We wanted to know the cheapest possible way to win an IMO gold medal, so we ran eight models against IMO 2026 problems in Cline and had the proofs graded blind. The answer was 12 cents .

08.26

Cline BlogToolsBuilding a code review agent on the Cline loop At Cline, LLMs have helped us ramp up our ability to ship, allowing a team of our size to write code without compromise on quality.

08.26

Cline BlogToolsOpen-sourcing evals for open-weight agents Preface With new model releases like Fable and Gpt-5.6 Sol, it's becoming increasingly clear that closed-weight models are becoming a very expensive commodity, leaving us at the mercy of frontier…

08.18

Cline BlogToolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning just landed in Cline NVIDIA just released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a new customizable open model built for always-on agents and it is now available in Cline for FREE.

08.11

Cline BlogToolsTop 5 Open Weight Models That Matter to Developers in 2026 The perspective for open weight models has changed significantly in 2026. In just the past few months, labs like DeepSeek, Z.ai, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Qwen have released models that developers…

08.04

Cline BlogToolsRecursive Self Improvement for Coding Agents Preface Recursive self-improvement is the idea that models can iterate and improve on themselves to unlock singularity. We have achieved a version of that at Cline.

07.24

Cline BlogToolsHow to Save Millions by Self-Hosting LLMs Preface If you believe that cheap open weight models are the future then this blog is for you, we all know the why, but I will show you the how grounded in the economics behind it.

07.16

Cline BlogToolsClinePass, Best of Value for Open-Weight models Since developers started building in the agentic coding space, the logic felt simple: pay a premium for top-tier tokens, get the best result. The model was the moat. The model was the product.

06.29

Cline BlogToolsExtending the Cline loop with plugins and hooks An agent loop is a system around an LLM that lets it observe, decide, act, and repeat until a goal is met.

06.15

Cline BlogToolsIntroducing Cline SDK: the upgraded agent runtime, and we rebuilt Cline upon it Before “agents” became a buzzword, Cline was the first real agentic coding experience. Cline started with the VSCode extension and helped a generation of developers step into AI coding.

05.13