WARNINGMODEL RELEASE·2026-10-07
InclusionAI ships Ring-2.6-1T — first open-weight 1T MoE under Apache 2.0
▼ WHAT HAPPENED
InclusionAI (Ant Group's AI research arm) released Ring-2.6-1T this week. 1 trillion total parameters, ~32B activated per token, Apache 2.0 license. Hugging Face release includes Q4_K_M GGUF variants. Initial benchmarks on the Together-AI hosted endpoint suggest frontier reasoning + coding performance, broadly competitive with Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5 on the public benchmarks released alongside.
▼ OPERATOR ANGLE
**The headline:** Apache 2.0 on a frontier model. **The reality check:** local deployment is workstation-cluster only. 8×H100 80GB minimum for FP16; an M3 Ultra Mac Studio cluster (4 nodes, 768GB unified) for MLX Q4. For solo operators, the realistic path is hosted Together / DeepInfra endpoints — pricing TBD; they're typically 30-50% under the Claude/OpenAI equivalent at this tier. Added to /models catalog with how-to-run guidance. Watch /pulse for the first runlocalai-bench community submission on cluster setups.
▼ ENTITIES REFERENCED
[pulse item] · runlocalai.co/pulse/ring-2-6-1t-inclusionai-released