Models/shipped/2026-10-19

InclusionAI releases Ming-3.0-audio-flash model and initial performance comparisons

InclusionAI has released two new audio understanding and speech output models, Ming-3.0-audio-flash and Ming-3.0-audio-tiny, available on Hugging Face. The Ming-3.0-audio-flash model is described as a 126B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 6.5B active parameters, released under an MIT license. Community reports on r/LocalLLaMA highlighted the release and its specifications. Subsequently, OrcaRouter published several articles comparing Ming-3.0-audio-flash against other models, including Gemini 3.8 Live, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash. While the model release and its stated specifications are reported by InclusionAI and community sources, the performance comparisons are provided by OrcaRouter.

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  • InclusionAI released Ming-3.0-audio-flash
  • Model is a 126B MoE with 6.5B active parameters
  • Features audio understanding and speech output
  • Released under MIT license
  • Available on Hugging Face
  • Compared against Gemini and Qwen models

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