Chip design lab Ricursive releases open Ripple 65B, claims it beats US open models for $32M
Sam Witteveen · youtube · 2026-11-06
Sam Witteveen reviews Ripple 65B, an open model (Apache 2.0) from Ricursive — a chip design company rather than an LLM startup. It uses a thin-and-deep architecture, reportedly cost $32M to train, and claims benchmark results ahead of US open models including Chinese ones. The video includes comparisons and a demo.
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