inclusionAI: Ant Group's open AI lab

The open lab of a fintech giant

Ant Group, Alibaba’s sister company best known for the Alipay payment app, is headquartered in Hangzhou, China. Its large language model program, called Bailing, publishes its work under the inclusionAI banner. Its motto, “AI built by everyone, for everyone”, sums up the approach: making models available to the community rather than keeping them for in-house products.

Three complementary families

inclusionAI’s lineup is organized into three series:

• Ling: instant language models with no thinking phase, designed to answer quickly and cheaply;
• Ring: reasoning models that think before answering and target long tasks, especially coding and AI agent work;
• Ming: multimodal models built on Ling, able to handle images, audio and speech (recognition and synthesis).

The flagship Ling and Ring models are among the largest open models ever released. They use a mixture-of-experts design: only a fraction of the model works on each generated word, which keeps compute costs down. Smaller versions exist for more modest needs.

inclusionAI also publishes research tools, for example for reinforcement learning or for agents that operate a graphical interface (UI-Venus).

A fully open policy

This is inclusionAI’s defining trait: the organization states that all of its projects are released under the MIT or Apache 2.0 license. Its models are therefore open-weight models in the full sense: downloadable, modifiable and usable commercially. They are available on Hugging Face, ModelScope and GitHub.

In practice, the largest models require clusters of servers with high-end graphics cards. For a quick test, a platform that hosts them is the better choice.

How to get access

You have two options: download the weights and serve them with SGLang or vLLM, or use the third-party platforms the organization mentions, ZenMux and OpenRouter. To see where Ling and Ring stand among other open models, visit our open-source models page. The profile of Alibaba, a close relative of Ant Group, covers another major open family: Qwen.