RicursiveAI Releases From-Scratch Dense Ripple-65B, Tops 80% on Terminal Bench 2.1

DZhang50 · x · 2026-11-06

RicursiveAI released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense LLM pretrained entirely from scratch, scoring over 80% on Terminal Bench 2.1 and setting a new US open-weight SOTA for agentic coding, beating significantly larger models including Muse Spark Open-816B, Beam-501B, Inkling-975B, and Nemotron 3 Ultra-550B.

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