Models/benchmark/2026-11-04

Ricursive AI releases Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight language model

Ricursive AI, a company founded by ex-Googlers, has launched Ripple-65B Preview, its first dense open-weight large language model. The company claims the model achieves a score of 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and asserts it holds the U.S. open coding lead on two major benchmarks. These performance claims are directly from Ricursive AI.

3 articles from 3 outlets covered this story. Their coverage differs on 2 points. The underlying claim is sourced from a benchmark.

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3 outlets covered “Ricursive AI releases Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight language model”. All of them report the following:

  • Ricursive AI released Ripple-65B Preview
  • Ripple-65B is a 65B dense open-weight model
  • Ricursive AI was founded by ex-Googlers

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Achieves 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

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Claims U.S. open coding lead on two major benchmarks

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