Ant Group Reveals the Model Behind Kilo's 'Elephant': Ling-2.6-flash

Published on 22.04.2026

AI & AGENTS

The Elephant is Out of the Bag: Meet Ant Group's Ling-2.6-flash

TLDR: Kilo's mystery "Elephant" model was actually Ant Group's Ling-2.6-flash, a 104B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with only 7.4B active parameters. It was released under a pseudonym to get unbiased community feedback, and the results were overwhelmingly positive. It's now free to use on Kilo for one week with no limits.

The Elephant is Out of the Bag: Meet Ant Group's Ling-2.6-flash