Comment by maxloh
18 hours ago
> ...open sourcing everything will help growing their economy (as a whole).
Most Chinese models are no longer open source. Qwen, MinMax, and GLM are transitioning to weights-available models, leaving only Xiaomi and DeepSeek in the open-source space.
AFAIK, there's no evidence that Alibaba won't keep releasing more open source models. Before 3.8 there was speculation they wouldn't release the weights, but they finally did - Although I guess the largest model wasn't multi modal.
And Minmax is set to release their latest flash model on October 23rd.
So not sure where you're getting this from, unless I misunderstood something
It doesn't matter anyway. Weights aren't IP so the licenses are bunk.
> Weights aren't IP so the licenses are bunk.
This is not yet a given, I expect rule-making or copyright law expansion if courts rule otherwise.
Things also change. In the 80s lawyers carefully suggested white pages phone listings came under copyright but "sweat of the brow" was rejected by US supreme court in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)
I assume weights can also be IP in the form of trade secrets.
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Why is that btw?
Because if you don’t open weight you can dictate pricing as you’re the only party that can serve the model. Also attracts users to your platform rather than inf providers.