Alibaba To Charge Big Users Of Its Next Open-Source AI Model: Report

To date, Alibaba has charged developers for use of its models when hosted on its own cloud computing platform but allowed most of its open-source offerings to be used in customers' own data centers without payment.

Like last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, ​Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight model, meaning that the underlying learned settings that allow developers to run or adapt the system are available for download. By contrast,…