Ripple-65B Preview: Apache 2.0 open US model tops TerminalBench 2.1 with $32M R&D
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-07
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B-parameter fully Apache 2.0 open-weight US model that the company says scores highest among open-source US models on TerminalBench 2.1, built for agentic coding at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks it trails the newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small.
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