Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B open-weight model under Apache 2.0
The gist
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight model, on Nov 4, 2026.
Its vendor-reported scores and low $32M training cost are drawing scrutiny over comparability.
How it unfolded
- Nov 4, 2026Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter dense model under Apache 2.0, with weights on Hugging Face and a third-party API listing.
- Nov 4, 2026Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights, about 1.56 TB, became public within hours of Ripple's release.
- Nov 5, 2026Qwen 4 Max still had no model card, weights, price, API identifier or published benchmark.