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title: "Ricursive releases open-weight Ripple-65B, scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/ricursive-releases-open-weight-ripple-65b-scoring-80-5-on-terminal-bench-5476df
source_name: "MarkTechPost"
source_url: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/04/ricursive-ripple-65b-preview-open-weight-model/
published: 2026-11-04T21:01:06.000Z
topics: ["llms", "open source"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Ricursive releases open-weight Ripple-65B, scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

*2026-11-04 · Source: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/04/ricursive-ripple-65b-preview-open-weight-model/)*

Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B-parameter dense LLM under the Apache 2.0 license. It scores 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, which the company says is ahead of US open models up to 15 times larger.

**Why it matters:** A mid-sized, permissively licensed model leading on an agentic terminal benchmark suggests post-training and data quality are closing the gap with much larger models. That lowers the cost of self-hosting capable coding agents, though the claim comes from the developer and needs independent replication.

**Topics:** llms, open source

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