Ricursive Intelligence’s Ripple-65B Preview claims coding lead among US open models

The chip-design startup's first open-weight model edges past a far larger rival on TerminalBench 2.1 and posts 79.1 on SWE-bench Pro v2.0 Hard Ricursive Intelligence has released Ripple -65B Preview, an open-weight model that the company says leads all US open models on two demanding coding benchmarks. The startup is best known for using AI to design chips. Now it is shipping a general-purpose coding model, and it is putting up numbers against models many times its size. The release landed on November 4, 2026, under an Apache 2.0 license.