{"type":"post","id":"inclusionai-released-ling-3-1-flash-a-560b-af9ab3","slug":"inclusionai-released-ling-3-1-flash-a-560b-af9ab3","title":"InclusionAI released Ling-3.1-flash , a 560B total / 25B active MoE under MIT license.","description":"**Thesis:** A large open model's practical entry point depends not only on its weights but also on whether teams can test it through familiar serving engines.","retrieval_nugget":"**Thesis:** A large open model's practical entry point depends not only on its weights but also on whether teams can test it through familiar serving engines.","published_at":"2026-10-16","updated_at":"2026-10-16","record_date":"2026-10-16","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["open-models","models","inference"],"source_urls":["https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:inclusionai-released-ling-3-1-flash-a-560b-af9ab3","status":"published","visuals":[],"editorial_provenance":{"schema_version":"newruntime-editorial-copy-v1","content_status":"source_grounded_final","final_copy_sha256":"sha256:2f003e54fe645c7ae90b5b36d5d8cac514bbecbaca2636376fccd73ad5a7ecb0","reviewed_at":"2026-10-16T20:11:23.635Z","source_evidence_count":1,"verified_claim_count":3,"site_analysis_schema_version":"newruntime-site-analysis-v1","site_object_kind":"field_note","observed_fact_count":3,"implication_count":2,"watch_condition_count":1,"related_record_count":0},"analysis":{"schema_version":"newruntime-site-analysis-v1","object_kind":"field_note","thesis":"A large open model's practical entry point depends not only on its weights but also on whether teams can test it through familiar serving engines.","observed_facts":[{"text":"The InclusionAI model page identifies Ling-3.1-flash as a 560-billion-total, 25-billion-active-parameter mixture-of-experts model.","source_urls":["https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash"]},{"text":"The page lists the license as MIT.","source_urls":["https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash"]},{"text":"The supplied release information also states that SGLang and vLLM have day-one support, including MTP speculative decoding.","source_urls":["https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash"]}],"mechanism":"The combination of an open license and support in two established inference projects can make initial evaluation easier for teams already using those tools. 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