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Ant Group

Ant Group is a Chinese financial technology company headquartered in Hangzhou, known for the Alipay payment platform. Its AGI initiative publishes open models under the inclusionAI organisation on Hugging Face, including the Ling language models and the Ming multimodal models, mostly under the MIT licence.

Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026

Facts at a glance

TypeFinancial technology company with an AGI research initiative
HeadquartersHangzhou, China
Open model organisationinclusionAI on Hugging Face, home of Ant Group's AGI initiative source
Model familiesLing (language), Ming (multimodal and speech) source
Latest releaseLing-3.1-flash-1019, published 27 October 2026 source

Questions people ask

What is inclusionAI?
inclusionAI is the Hugging Face organisation that its profile describes as home for Ant Group's Artificial General Intelligence initiative. It publishes the Ling and Ming model families.
Are Ant Group's Ling models open weights?
Yes. The Ling-3.1-flash model cards on Hugging Face list the MIT licence.