# Ant Ling — Ring: A Reasoning MoE LLM Provided and Open-sourced by InclusionAI

- Company: Ant Ling (ant-ling.com)
- Announced: 2025-04-01
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://developer.ant-ling.com/en/blogs/ring
- Record: https://forck.live/items/22354-ring-a-reasoning-moe-llm-provided-and-open-sourced-by-inclusionai
- Subject: Ling / Ring / Ming
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Ring, Ring-lite, Ring-lite-distill-preview, Ring-lite-linear-preview
- License: MIT License

InclusionAI open-sourced Ring, a reasoning mixture-of-experts large language model derived from Ling, along with several variants including Ring-lite-distill-preview (16.8B total parameters, 2.75B activated). The models are available on Hugging Face and ModelScope under the MIT License.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://developer.ant-ling.com/en/blogs/ring:

> We introduce Ring-lite-distill-preview, which has 16.8 billion parameters with 2.75 billion activated parameters. This model demonstrates impressive reasoning performance compared to existing models in the industry.

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