The 65B That Beat the Billion-Parameter Models

Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B on November 4, a dense 65B open-weight model that scores 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1 — beating models more than ten times its size. The story isn't just the benchmark: it's how they got there with $32M, 1.4M RL rollouts, and no purchased training data.

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