Open-weights licenses tighten: Qwen, Kimi, GLM and Step add provider conditions, DeepSeek stays pure MIT
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-03
- Open-weights licenses are tightening: this year Qwen, Kimi, GLM and Step all added conditions targeting inference providers, while DeepSeek remains the only major lab still shipping plain MIT with no strings attached, unchanged since R1.
- The attached interview excerpt frames open source as intentional strategy: AI may eventually account for a meaningful share of global GDP — too large to monopolize — so sharing weights and commercialization can coexist.
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