Ricursive posts a 65B open-weights model with an 80.5 terminal score
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What this means for you
The Apache 2.0 licence permits commercial deployment, so the weights are usable. But 80.5 is self-reported, with no evaluation date and no harness detail. Until someone independent reruns Terminal-Bench 2.1, treat the comparison to larger models as a claim, not a baseline for choosing what to serve.
Ricursive Intelligence has published Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weights language model with 65 billion parameters under Apache 2.0, so anyone can download and run it. It is dense — every parameter runs on each request, unlike mixture-of-experts designs that activate only part of the network. The company reports 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, a benchmark of command-line tasks, and says that beats US open models up to 15 times its size. The score carries no evaluation date or harness detail, and no independent run has been published.
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Key facts
- ·Ripple-65B Preview is released by Ricursive Intelligence under Apache 2.0. source
- ·The model is dense with 65 billion parameters. source
- ·It scores 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, as reported in the release. source
- ·Ricursive says the score is ahead of US open models up to 15 times its size. source
- ·The release was covered on 4 November 2026. source
What the sources say
- MarkTechPost — Short release write-up: licence, parameter count, one benchmark figure and the size comparison.
Sources
The original reporting. Follow these — they did the work.