# Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model

**Published:** November 6, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/ripple-65b-preview-delivers-strong-agentic-coding-results-as-a-fully-apa

Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks,…

Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple falls behind the likewise newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small. The article Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model appeared first on The Decoder.

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