Ling-2.6-Flash Confirmed as Stealth 'Elephant Alpha' — Ant Group's 104B MoE Model Processed 100B Tokens Before Reveal

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The mysterious 'Elephant Alpha' model that topped OpenRouter's trending leaderboard has been unmasked as Ant Group's Ling-2.6-Flash, a 104B total / 7.4B active parameter MoE model built with Agentic RL. The model processed approximately 100 billion tokens on OpenRouter before anyone identified the creator, running at 340 tokens/second. Released under Ant Group's inclusionAI initiative with a 262K context window, it's fully compatible with OpenClaw and positioned as a developer-focused agent backbone.