Open Weights Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights: 4 Labs, 4 Meanings of Open in 2026 Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max with open weights next week. Two days later there is no repo, no license, no date. We measured the gap between API and download across four labs: 0 days, 11 days, and counting.
OpenModels Kimi K3 Open Weights: Self-Host or Buy the API in 2026? Moonshot published 1.56 TB of Kimi K3 weights on July 27. Running them yourself starts at $21,600 a month for one node, and the API break-even sits at 1.44 billion output tokens. The math, and the license.
