Ling-3.1-flash — Ant Group's 560B hybrid reasoning model
Ant Group's InclusionAI launches a ~560B-total / ~25B-active hybrid reasoning MoE with up to 1M-token context, free for a two-week trial and promised open-source afterwards.
Why it matters
The biggest open-weight-bound frontier-agentic model from a Chinese lab this quarter — targets coding, tool-use agents and long-horizon office/health workflows.
What you could build with it
A product team could build a long-horizon contract-review or medical-record assistant on the 1M-context hybrid-reasoning backbone (once open-sourced) — ingest multi-hundred-page case files, run tool-using research loops, and draft memos without context juggling; an indie hacker could ship a cheap agentic coding copilot once weights land.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge — weights not public yet (open-source promised after the 2-week free trial); all benchmarks vendor-reported.
Built with Ling-3.1-flash
- Ling 3.1 Flash is now available on AI Gatewayvercel · Vercel AI Gateway ships inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash, free to use through Oct 13, 2026; includes provider pricing and latency data.
- Ant Ling announcement on Xx · Official @AntLingAGI post (Sept 30, 2026) announcing ~560B total params, ~25B active/token, 1M context, and upcoming open-sourcing.
- AI Morning News 2026-10-01 (Chinese AI news roundup)youtube · Chinese AI news roundup (chapter 01:22) covering the Ling-3.1-flash release and free-trial terms.
Learn more
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