Ricursive releases Ripple-65B, a 65B coding model it says beat 975B rivals
Goldie and Mirhoseini's chip-design lab released a 65B dense model it says scored 80.5 on TerminalBench 2.1 and cost $32M to train.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: x.com
Why it matters
Ripple is the first public model from a $4B chip-design startup built by AlphaChip's creators, and its own model card both supports and limits the efficiency claim. If independent runs confirm the TerminalBench result at 65B, developers get a locally deployable open-weight coding model that challenges much larger systems on one key agentic test.
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview on November 4th, a 65-billion-parameter dense language model that co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini built to power the Palo Alto company's AI chip design platform. They are now offering it as a general-purpose open-weight model. Ricursive announced the release in a thread on X and on its Ripple page, saying Ripple is a general-purpose variant of the proprietary model behind its chip design work.…
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