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  3. Ling 2.6 Flash
Updated Apr 21, 2026
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Openings

How Ling 2.6 Flash starts an answer

The first lines of 5 of its 24 written answers. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Adversarial Contract Review

Here is a contract for a software consulting engagement: --- SOFTWARE CONSULTING AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into between TechCorp…

1,588 words
Below is an analysis of each clause that presents a risk to the Contractor, suggested modifications, and the legal reasoning for those changes. Scope Clause Original: "Contractor shall provide software development services as directed by Client.
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

1,209 words
My immediate, unequivocal decision: Treat this as a critical safety event requiring immediate, transparent action. The 1 in 8,000 risk, while rare, is a life-threatening safety signal that cannot be delayed.
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Estimate Complexity

Estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. Explain your reasoning step by step.

990 words
Alright — let's break this down step by step. Step 1: Understanding what “training GPT-3” means in FLOPs terms Training a large language model involves: Forward passes through the transformer layers. Computing loss. Backward passes to compute gradients. Updating weights (optimizer step).
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Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

982 words
Dish Title: Echoes of the Forgotten Forest Conceptual Narrative: This dish is an exploration of memory and sensory time travel. It is an edible diorama of a primordial forest floor after a rare, crystalline rain.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

970 words
Experienced Software Engineer Think of the model as a vastly distributed, probabilistic state machine for code and text, not a "brain." Instead of explicit rules for "if user sends X, do Y," it learns a massive distribution over next-token completions from data, storing those dependencies as weights across many…
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Prompts Ling 2.6 Flash answered

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Ling 2.6 Flash

Ling 2.6 Flash

inclusionAI's Ling-2.6-flash, 104B total parameters with 7.4B active, built for agents that need fast answers and few tokens. inclusionAI reports it level with comparable models at similar scale while spending noticeably less on coding, document processing and light agent work.

WebsiteOpenRouterHuggingFaceGitHubPaper
Provider
inclusionAI
Released
2026-04-21
Size
LARGE
Free API (OpenRouter)
No
Per 1M tokens
$0.00 in · $0.00 out
Rival’s tab
$0.00
58/58 receipts survived

Free API availability

No free endpoint for Ling 2.6 Flash was found in Rival’s OpenRouter listings. Other providers or chat apps may have separate free offers.

Provider data: 16 Sep 2026 · OpenRouter usage limits

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Get API accessProvider and language code samples
Provider
fromimport openai  OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"    base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"    api_key=,
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"inclusionai/ling-2.6-flash:free"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.

Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA
SubjectiveBench

Taste Index

Across 58 scored outputs
How this is measured →
190.19xFloor
0100headroom →

Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.

Craft28
Originality15
Plays it safe
share of outputs that are the default answer
67%
Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 27 text responses
Tick = global average
Vocabulary Diversity55%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length26.9 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.49

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting5.6

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage4.7

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure0.54

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.09

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.07

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits
Consistency
66%
Across 27 responses

Favorites

The Shawshank Redemption

Movie

The Shawshank Redemption

19948.7
The Dark Side of the Moon

Album

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd
Cien años de soledad

Book

Cien años de soledad

Gabriel García Márquez
Kyoto

City

Kyoto

Japan

Game

TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime

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