Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for automating advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60/1M output (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
The release provides access to Ripple-65B Preview, a system designed to assist with complex tasks in automated chip creation. Operating under a permissive structure, the model is intended to address general-purpose use cases across hardware development. Access to the system is being billed at an established rate of $0.60 per one million output tokens. Additional technical specifications accompanied the public announcement of the model.
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Development teams can implement the chip automation model using a flexible open-source Ap…: Development teams can implement the chip automation model using a flexible open-source Apache license.
The release targets the semiconductor industry with tools tailored specifically to automa…: The release targets the semiconductor industry with tools tailored specifically to automated chip design tasks.
A defined usage pricing structure makes advanced hardware design automation available at…: A defined usage pricing structure makes advanced hardware design automation available at scale for builders.
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