Financial technology and AI company
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
| Type | Financial technology company with an AGI research initiative |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, China |
| Open model organisation | inclusionAI on Hugging Face, home of Ant Group's AGI initiative source |
| Model families | Ling (language), Ming (multimodal and speech) source |
| Latest release | Ling-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.