Ricursive AI Releases Ripple 65B for Chip Design

Ricursive AI has launched Ripple 65B, an open-source large language model designed specifically for chip design tasks. The company, which previously focused on creating models for semiconductor engineering, released the weights under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. Ripple 65B reportedly outperforms existing US-based open models in its target domain, achieved through a 'thin and deep' architecture and a training budget of approximately $32 million. The release highlights a growing trend toward vertical-specific AI solutions that leverage specialized datasets to achieve superior performance in narrow industrial applications.