Ricursive drops Ripple-65B Preview

Ripple is one of the more compelling open-weight releases this year, but its benchmark lead remains a company-reported claim awaiting independent validation.

• –Apache 2.0 weights make the model commercially usable and self-hostable.
• –The 1M-token context is an architectural capability; initial hosted access appears limited to 16K tokens.
• –Its dense design could offer more predictable inference than massive mixture-of-experts models.
• –A 65B checkpoint still requires substantial hardware, though quantized versions improve local deployment prospects.
• –Terminal-Bench 2.1 results are promising, but cross-benchmark comparisons should be treated cautiously.