Side-by-side comparison of Grok-2 (xAI · USA) and Ling-2.6 1T (inclusionAI · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Grok-2 is rated conditional; Ling-2.6 1T is conditional. They part ways on licence: Grok-2 is "Grok 2 Community", Ling-2.6 1T is "MIT".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional xAI's first open-weights release. Commercial use allowed under the Grok 2 Community License with xAI's Acceptable Use Policy. Notable restriction: weights cannot be used to train other models (distillation ban). 500GB model, needs 8 GPUs with 40GB+. | Conditional Per the published model card, Ling-2.6 1T is an MIT-licensed 1-trillion-parameter MoE with a 262k-token context, hybrid MLA + Linear attention and multi-token-prediction support, targeted at production agentic workloads. Permissive weights enable EU self-hosting in principle, though the deployment footprint is non-trivial; vendor jurisdiction (Ant Group, China) and undisclosed training data remain the regulated-buyer blockers. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Grok 2 Community | MIT |
| Commercial use | Yes (w/ AUP) | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 14/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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