Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight model pretrained from scratch on 12T tokens with up to 1M context, shipping three Apache 2.0 checkpoints (instruction-tuned BF16, NVFP4, and BF16 base). Ricursive reports 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, the top self-reported score among US open-weight models, while trailing larger MoE rivals on SciCode (39.4) and DeepSWE 1.1 (44.3), with full R&D cost stated at $32M. Weights are on Hugging Face, with Together AI, GMI Cloud and OpenRouter listed at launch and an experimental NVFP4 build targeting NVIDIA DGX Spark.