Ling 3.0 Flash scores -18 on AA-Omniscience, a 48 point improvement from Ling 2.6 Flash’s -66. This is driven primarily by significant decrease in hallucination rate from 97% to 44%.
hallucination — When a model states something false with full confidence — inventing facts, citations, or APIs that don't exist.
grounding — Tying a model's answers to checkable sources — retrieved documents, live data, tool results — instead of letting it answer from memory alone.
Why it matters
A hallucinationWhen a model states something false with full confidence — inventing facts, citations, or APIs that don't exist.Full definition → rate dropping from 97% to 44% is the difference between an open model being unusable and being a candidate for knowledge-groundingTying a model's answers to checkable sources — retrieved documents, live data, tool results — instead of letting it answer from memory alone.Full definition → work.
