Open-Weight Models Shift to Non-Commercial Licensing as Post-Training Rights Emerge

As model development costs soar, open-weight models are shifting toward non-commercial licenses, with early inference-time revenue-sharing deals like Kimi K3 already emerging. Post-training licensing could become a hundred-billion-dollar market, with companies like Cognition and Harvey likely needing to pay to fine-tune commercially.

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