Side-by-side comparison of Ling-2.6 1T (inclusionAI · China) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Ling-2.6 1T is rated conditional; Mistral Medium 3.5 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Ling-2.6 1T is "MIT", Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT".
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| Verdict | 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. | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-05-03 |
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| Licence | MIT | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Permitted (revenue cap) |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | EU (France) |
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