Ant Ling (Bailing)
Ant Group's open-weight Ling and Ring model family, including trillion-parameter models released free on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Overview
Ling (also called Bailing) is an open-weight large language model family from Ant Group's Inclusion AI team. It spans the Ling non-thinking series, including trillion-parameter models such as Ling-1T and the upgraded Ling-2.6-1T, and the Ring reasoning series. The models use a mixture-of-experts design that activates only a fraction of parameters per token for efficiency, and are released free under open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Pricing
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What you can produce with Ant Ling (Bailing)
- MIT-licensed trillion-parameter weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, with no licensing friction to negotiate
- Reasoning results from the Ring series: around 70.42% on AIME 2025, a #1 open-source finish on ArtifactsBench, roughly 81.6% on Arena-Hard V2, and an IMO silver-medal-equivalent showing billed as a first for an open system
- An open non-reasoning model in Ling-1T, which DeepLearning.AI's The Batch highlighted as outperforming closed competitors
- Hosted endpoints, which is how most people will actually reach these models
- ⚠️ Not realistically self-hostable, which undercuts the open-weights point: a 1T mixture-of-experts flagship needs serious infrastructure even though MoE activates only a slice of parameters per token
- Second-best rather than leading among reasoning models — strong but chasing the closed frontier — and Western adopters weigh the provenance and data-transparency questions that come with any Chinese-lab model
What this is for: An open-weight model family covering fast-response Ling models (up to a trillion parameters) and Ring reasoning models, built on efficient mixture-of-experts architectures.
Who this is for: Developers and researchers who want to self-host large open-weight Chinese-origin models, including trillion-parameter flagships, without licensing fees.
Availability: Free, open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Developed by Ant Group's Inclusion AI (Bailing) team.
What people say
Ant Group's Inclusion AI team earned strong open-source credibility with the Ling and Ring families, and the benchmark reception has been unusually warm for a Chinese-origin release. DeepLearning.AI's The Batch highlighted Ling-1T as an open non-reasoning model that outperforms closed competitors, while the Ring reasoning series posted headline results: around 70.42% on AIME 2025, a #1 open-source finish on ArtifactsBench, roughly 81.6% on Arena-Hard V2 (approaching GPT-5-Thinking), and an IMO silver-medal-equivalent showing billed as a first for an open system. The MIT license on the trillion-parameter weights, published to Hugging Face and ModelScope, is a genuine draw for teams that want no licensing friction.
The obvious limitation is practicality: these are trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts models, and while MoE activates only a slice of parameters per token, self-hosting a 1T flagship is out of reach for almost everyone without serious infrastructure, pushing most users toward hosted endpoints and undercutting the open-weights advantage. Benchmark placement is also often second-best among reasoning models, i.e. strong but chasing the closed frontier rather than leading it, and some Western adopters weigh provenance and data-transparency questions that come with any Chinese-lab model. The signal is credible and rising, but the models reward well-resourced teams far more than hobbyists.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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