Comment by square_usual

Xi has made it official policy, see his keynote speech at their World AI Conference last month:

> We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing. [1]

People have pointed that this seemingly made Alibaba/Qwen turn around from closing their models (this was rumored after the shakeup early this year [2]) and release the weights for even the Max variant of their new models, which they previously did not.

1: http://english.scio.gov.cn/topnews/2026-07/18/content_118605...

2: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/