Ant launches Ling-3.0-flash-Fin for finance workflows; OpenRouter access is free for one month

Ant's Ling team has released Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a finance-enhanced version of Ling-3.0-flash built with financial institutions and domain experts. It is a 124B-total, 5.1B-active MoE aimed at financial information retrieval, research, valuation modeling, report preparation, long reports and complex workbooks. Why it matters: most “finance AI” announcements collapse several different problems into one leaderboard number. This launch at least exposes a wider evaluation surface — FinFIRST, FinSearchComp Verified, FinCRAFT, FinanceAgent v1.1/v2, APEX-Agents, SpreadsheetBench v1/v2 and τ³-Banking — and the reported profile is mixed rather than a sweep. The team also reports an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 score of 41 versus 38 for the base Ling-3.0-flash. Availability is also unusually easy to test: the model is live on OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, with one month of free access through the OpenRouter API. The weights are not out yet; the team says they will be open-sourced next week. The most important limitation is in the launch thread itself: expert review is still required for key assumptions, valuation outputs and investment conclusions. This is a model release, not an autonomous investment adviser.