Ant Group Open-Sources Ling-3.0-tiny: 1.3B Active Parameters, Top HF Trending

Following Ling-3.0-flash, Ant Group's Bailing team open-sourced Ling-3.0-tiny, a lightweight hybrid-inference MoE model with 7.9B total parameters and only 1.3B active parameters per token, designed for extreme inference efficiency and real-world task execution. It has already reached the Hugging Face trending list, offering a low-compute option for local agent deployment.

Confirmed

Architecture & Parameters: MoE with 128 experts, 7.9B total, 1.3B active. Uses a 3:1 KDA (Kimi Incremental Attention) and MLA architecture, supporting 262K context.
Open-source specs: Available in BF16, FP8, and INT4 precisions, includes custom code, MIT license.
Performance: Scored 16.7 on Artificial Analysis intelligence index. Tests show overall performance between 4B and 12B Qwen models, and with 1.3B active parameters it outperforms some larger models (e.g., 31B or GPT-OSS 120B on some metrics).
Use cases: Designed for reasoning, tool calling, and agent tasks, suitable for efficient local deployment.

Why it matters

Ling-3.0-tiny achieves above-class performance with extremely low active parameters, significantly lowering the compute barrier for edge or local agent deployment, providing a competitive open-source option for building efficient real-world task execution systems.

2026-08-11 ~ 2026-08-12 · 7 related posts

Full story(2 episodes)→

Episode 1: AntLingAGI Releases Ling-3.0-tiny Native Hybrid Reasoning Model(2026-08-07, 2 posts)
Episode 2: Ant Group Open-Sources Ling-3.0-tiny: 1.3B Active Parameters, Top HF Trending(2026-08-11, 7 posts)

Primary sources

inclusionAI Releases Ling-3.0-tiny Model on Hugging Face — inclusionAI · 2026-08-11 11:17 (UTC+08:00)
Ant Group Releases Ling 3.0 Tiny: High Intelligence with 1.3B Active Parameters, but Highly Verbose — ArtificialAnlys · 2026-08-12 10:51 (UTC+08:00)
Ant Group Open-Sources Ling-3.0-tiny: 1.3B Active Params Beats 31B Models — 智东西 · 2026-08-11 20:48 (UTC+08:00)

Ant Ling Team Open-Sources Ling-3.0-tiny: An 8B Parameter MoE Model — tomaarsen · 2026-08-11
inclusionAI Releases Ling-3.0-tiny: An 8B Parameter MoE Model — -Cubie- · 2026-08-11
Ling-3.0-tiny Released: 1.3B Active Params Beats GPT-OSS 120B — solyarisoftware · 2026-08-11
AntLingAGI Releases Ling-3.0-tiny Open-Weights Model for Agentic Tasks — AccBalanced · 2026-08-11
[source] inclusionAI Releases Ling-3.0-tiny Model on Hugging Face — inclusionAI · 2026-08-11
[source] Ant Group Open-Sources Ling-3.0-tiny: 1.3B Active Params Beats 31B Models — 智东西 · 2026-08-11
[source] Ant Group Releases Ling 3.0 Tiny: High Intelligence with 1.3B Active Parameters, but Highly Verbose — ArtificialAnlys · 2026-08-12