Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight coding model it says cost $32M
Ricursive says its dense 65B model scores 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1, ahead of larger US open-weight models, and that $32M covered all R&D. OpenRouter lists it at $0.2 in and $0.6 out per 1M tokens.
Why it matters: A US open-weight coding option that Ricursive says runs on local hardware like DGX Spark. Worth a trial for self-hosted coding agents; the scores are the vendor's own.
From Drop #067 · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · Morning