Ricursive Intelligence has announced the release of Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. According to reports from The Decoder, the model secured the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark, following a total research and development cost of $32 million.
Open-Source Benchmarks and Competition
The release places Ripple-65B Preview into a competitive field of open-weight models developed in Western markets. However, benchmark performance varies. While the model excelled in agentic coding evaluations like TerminalBench 2.1, it reportedly trails behind Inkling 2 Small, another newly released Western open model, across several other unspecified benchmarks.
Unresolved Details
Despite the announcement, several key operational details remain unaddressed. The initial release communications did not specify hardware requirements for running the model locally, nor did they outline a timeline for a stable, non-preview version. Furthermore, the exact benchmarks where Ripple falls behind Inkling 2 Small were not detailed in the available reporting.
Developers and researchers can access the Apache 2.0 licensed weights now as evaluation continues across the open-source community.
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