Open Source Models Shift to Revenue Sharing and Licensing
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-01
Rising development costs are pushing open-source models toward non-commercial licenses. Early revenue-sharing agreements on inference (like Kimi K3) are emerging. The next phase involves post-training licensing, where companies like Cognition or Harvey must pay original developers $5M-$10M/year to commercialize fine-tuned models.
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