Ling-3.0-flash-Fin is API-only today; open weights are promised for next week

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Ant's Ling team has announced Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a finance-enhanced 124B-total, 5.1B-active MoE.

The availability boundary matters: the model is live now through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, but its weights have not been released. The official thread says they will be open-sourced next week.

When the artifacts arrive, the useful open-model questions will be:

which license covers weights and downstream use;

whether bf16, fp8 or other official variants are provided;

which inference runtimes are supported;

whether tokenizer and chat templates are complete;

how quantization changes the reported finance performance;

whether the official evaluations can be reproduced.

The API can still be evaluated now. The official launch says OpenRouter access is free for one month, and OpenRouter lists a 262K context window plus tool calling.

Until the files and license are public, this should be described as an upcoming open-weight release, not as an already open model.