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

Ricursive Intelligence released a preview of Ripple-65B, a 65-billion-parameter open model it claims leads U.S. open models on coding benchmarks. The company positions the release as evidence that smaller, efficiently trained models can rival larger counterparts, potentially reshaping how AI developers allocate compute and training budgets. The claim matters because coding capability has become a key battleground among open-weight model releases, where U.S. labs are competing with strong Chinese open models. Watch for independent benchmark verification of the coding results and for the full model weights and license terms, which will determine how widely developers can adopt Ripple-65B.