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Ling 3.0 Flash VL
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OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALFREE TO TRYIMAGE ANALYSISWRITING HELPCODING HELP
RANKED #164 OF 317 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #216 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.8 · 5,747 VOICES ·
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A fast vision and text AI designed to analyze images, write, and help with everyday digital tasks.
HAPPY9.1
10 mentions
SAD5.9
5 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 5,752 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Ling 3.0 Flash VL once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
124B parameters (5.5B active per token MoE), FP4 quantized size is around 64 GB, FP8 is around 125 GB, and BF16 is around 250 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 128 GB RAM)
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3500 USEDINT4/FP4 quantization, ~25 tok/s, 32k context
- SWEET SPOT
Mac Studio (M3 Ultra, 192 GB RAM)
192 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$6500 NEWFP8 quantization, ~30 tok/s, 128k context
- FULL POWER
4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48 GB) Workstation
192 GB VRAM
~$28000 NEWFP8/BF16 tensor parallelism, ~45 tok/s, 256k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LING 3.0 FLASH VL?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Ling 3.0 Flash VL takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMMac Studio (M2 Ultra, 128 GB RAM) | SWEET SPOTMac Studio (M3 Ultra, 192 GB RAM) | FULL POWER4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48 GB) Workstation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~20 S★★★★★ | ~17 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~60 S★★★★★ | ~50 S★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~5.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~14 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~10 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Ling 3.0 Flash VL sees steady community discussion for vision tasks, though user feedback is still developing.
452 POSTS · 5295 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2026-09-10 · 436 UPVOTESGPT-6 Sol Appeared on the OpenAI API
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- BLOG · 2026-10-20 · 32 UPVOTESLatest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China
The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly. We’ve seen many news items in the last week showing both the U.S. and Chinese governments positioning…
- REDDIT · 2026-09-29 · 13 UPVOTESA 13-field JSON prompt for breaking down a reference image
A 13-field JSON prompt for breaking down a reference image
- BLUESKY · 2026-09-09 · 13 UPVOTESLing-3.0-flash-VL just dropped from Ant Group huggingface.co/inclusionAI/... - Native image + video: understand > reas
Ling-3.0-flash-VL just dropped from Ant Group huggingface.co/inclusionAI/... - Native image + video: understand > reas
- REDDIT · 2026-09-10 · 9 UPVOTESComment in r/artificial
Comment in r/artificial
- REDDIT · 2026-10-07 · 6 UPVOTESPhoto, screenshot, ad, or video: route the reference to a different output schema
Photo, screenshot, ad, or video: route the reference to a different output schema
- REDDIT · 2026-09-11 · 6 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-09-12 · 6 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-08-21 · 5 UPVOTESLing-3.0 opens six base checkpoints across three training stages
Ling-3.0 opens six base checkpoints across three training stages
- REDDIT · 2026-09-11 · 4 UPVOTESComment in r/ollama
Comment in r/ollama
- GITHUB · 2026-09-11 · 2 UPVOTESHarden the IPC boundary and remove HTML injection points in rendering
Harden the IPC boundary and remove HTML injection points in rendering
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-10-14 · 0 UPVOTESLocal AI - How do you choose your models
Local AI - How do you choose your models