AI Coding Live News

Ant Ling Launches Ling-3.2-flash: 560B/25B Native Multimodal MoE, 1M Context; Vendor Evals Beat Opus 5 on Several Vision Suites; Free for First Two Weeks

On November 5 Ant Group’s Ant Ling (@AntLingAGI) launched Ling-3.2-flash: a 560B-total / 25B-active native multimodal MoE with a 1M context window and native image, text and video input. The official changelog targets complex visual understanding, multimodal long-horizon agents, 3D understanding and interaction, and medical multimodal work; APIs are OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible and free for the first two weeks. The launch post cites vendor evals versus Claude Opus 5 (max): OmniDocBench1.5 92.21 vs 90.56, ZEROBench(Sub) 43.71 vs 39.52, Vision2Web 85.86 vs 80.20. DesignArena placed it about #10 on Image-to-Frontend with Elo 1238.

Ant Ling Launches Ling-3.2-flash: 560B/25B Native Multimodal MoE, 1M Context; Vendor Evals Beat Opus 5 on Several Vision Suites; Free for First Two Weeks

Key Takeaways

  • Specs (official docs): 560B total / 25B active; 1M context; native image/text/video; four focuses: complex vision, multimodal long-horizon agents, 3D, medical multimodal
  • Availability: chat UI plus OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs; changelog says free for first 2 weeks, then original pricing resumes
  • Vendor evals (official X): OmniDocBench1.5 92.21 vs Opus 5 90.56; ZEROBench(Sub) 43.71 vs 39.52; Vision2Web 85.86 vs 80.20
  • Third party: DesignArena Image-to-Frontend ~#10, Elo 1238; official price page stresses 2-week free promo and has not listed 3.2 USD rates yet
  • Hands-on: model id Ling-3.2-flash; use image_url / video_url blocks; weights not on Hugging Face (API-first)
Read full story
Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ Ling-3.2-flash⚡ Ling-3.1-flash⚡ Claude Opus 5🌐 Ant Ling🌐 Ant Group

Ant Ling open-sources Ling-3.1-flash-1019: further post-trained 560B/25B-active MoE lifts AA Intelligence Index from 41 to 44, base checkpoint also released

On Oct 27 Ant Ling (inclusionAI) open-sourced Ling-3.1-flash-1019, a further post-trained upgrade of the early-October Ling-3.1-flash: 560B total parameters, 25B active per token, a 1M-token context and an MIT license. Ant says it scores 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 (up from 41), with clear gains on agent tasks such as AA-Briefcase and AutomationBench-AA. It also released Ling-3.1-flash-base, an open foundation checkpoint for further training.

Ant Ling open-sources Ling-3.1-flash-1019: further post-trained 560B/25B-active MoE lifts AA Intelligence Index from 41 to 44, base checkpoint also released

Key Takeaways

  • Scale: 560B total and 25B active parameters, 1M-token context, MIT license, on Hugging Face and ModelScope
  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2: 44, up from 41 for Ling-3.1-flash (vendor-reported)
  • AA-Briefcase rises from about 1400 to 1524 Elo and AutomationBench-AA from 62% to 68% (vendor-reported)
  • Science: CritPt from 18% to 26% and SciCode from 54% to 57% (vendor-reported)
  • Architecture: hybrid-linear MoE with 63 KDA layers plus 9 gated MLA layers (7:1), 512 routed experts and 8 active per token
Read full story
Linked Models & Agents:

Ant inclusionAI open-sources five Ming-3.0 speech models: a 0.5B TTS tops open-weight controlled voice, plus a 126B MoE audio-understanding model

On October 19 Ant Ling (inclusionAI) open-sourced five Ming-3.0 models under MIT, spanning speech synthesis (tts-0.5B; tts-tiny, 7.9B total/1.3B active), audio understanding (audio-flash, 126B/6.5B active; audio-tiny, 9.3B/2.7B active) and speech recognition (asr-tiny, 8.6B/2B active). Per the vendor, tts-0.5B ranks #1 among open-weight models on Artificial Analysis Controlled Voice at 1069 Elo and ties #1 overall on pronunciation robustness at 93.2%; asr-tiny averages 4.41% error across four ASR categories. Weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope, with day-0 SGLang and vLLM support.

Ant inclusionAI open-sources five Ming-3.0 speech models: a 0.5B TTS tops open-weight controlled voice, plus a 126B MoE audio-understanding model

Key Takeaways

  • Lineup: five models in three families, two TTS, two audio-understanding and one ASR, all MIT-licensed.
  • TTS results: tts-0.5B scores 1069 Elo on AA Controlled Voice, #1 among open weights; 1188 Elo and #3 on Provider Voice; ties #1 overall on pronunciation robustness at 93.2% (vendor figures).
  • TTS features: 7 languages plus Sichuanese and Cantonese, 14 inline paralinguistic tags (laughter, sighs, coughs and more), 44.1 kHz output, built on Qwen2.5-0.5B.
  • Audio understanding: audio-flash has 126B total and 6.5B active parameters, and handles long-recording summaries, spoken Q&A, audio reasoning and tool-call generation.
  • ASR: asr-tiny accepts hotwords and dialogue context, is evaluated on 15 dialect test sets, and averages 4.41% error across four categories (vendor figures).
Read full story
Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B⚡ Ming-3.0-tts-tiny⚡ Ming-3.0-audio-flash⚡ Ming-3.0-audio-tiny⚡ Ming-3.0-asr-tiny🌐 Ant Group🌐 inclusionAI🌐 SGLang🌐 vLLM

Ant Ling open-sources Ling-3.0-flash-Fin and FinFIRST for financial search agents

Ant Ling (AntLingAGI) open-sourced Ling-3.0-flash-Fin for real-world finance workflows and FinFIRST, an expert-built benchmark for financial search agents, aiming to make financial AI more accessible and verifiable. SGLang already announced Day-0 serving; this is the primary open-source + benchmark announcement.

Key Takeaways

  • Open-sources Ling-3.0-flash-Fin for real finance workflows.
  • Ships FinFIRST: expert-built benchmark for financial search agents.
  • Goal: more accessible, verifiable financial AI; pairs with SGLang Day-0 serving.
Read full story
Linked Models & Agents:
ADSponsored