Ling 3.0 Flash VL activates 5.5B parameters

Ant Group’s InclusionAI introduced Ling-3.0-flash-VL, a multimodal model with 124B total parameters but only 5.5B activated per token, according to its Hugging Face model card. The model accepts image and video inputs and is built for understanding, reasoning, acting, and verification; its sparse mixture-of-experts design makes active-parameter count—not headline size—the relevant deployment number. Builders comparing open-weight model options should measure memory, throughput, and task accuracy on their own vision workloads alongside the archive’s open-model cost comparison.