Ripple claims $32M compute for open-weight coding SOTA; skeptics question the math
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-05
RicursiveAI released Ripple, an open-weight agentic coding model allegedly trained on a $32M compute budget — "one-tenth" the previous open-weight SOTA. It's live on HuggingFace and OpenRouter, with a tech report coming.
Skeptics immediately flagged the framing: one-tenth implies the prior SOTA cost $320M in compute — which open-weight model ever had that budget?
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