inclusionAI open-sources Ming-3.0-audio-tiny: 9.3B MoE audio-language model (MIT)
jacek2023 · reddit · 2026-10-19
inclusionAI released Ming-3.0-audio-tiny on Hugging Face under MIT: a compact native audio-language model taking audio plus text instructions, supporting ASR, spoken QA, audio understanding and reasoning, with optional synthesized-speech replies (built-in or reference voice).
- MoE architecture: 9.3B total parameters, 2.7B activated per inference
- Handles Chinese and English speech including dialects, accents, noise, multi-speaker recordings
- Long-form audio comprehension; perceives speech, non-speech sounds, scenes and music
- Audio reasoning: answers questions over audio content
A flash variant and a GitHub examples repo are also available.
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