Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share (Reuters)
Alibaba and Moonshot are testing revenue-share terms for heavy commercial users of open models, shifting open-weights monetization toward usage-based licensing.
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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-plans-charge-big-users-its-next-open-source-ai-model-sources-say-2026-08-07/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260806/i59.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260806/p59#a260806p59" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-plans-charge-big-users-its-next-open-source-ai-model-sources-say-2026-08-07/">Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share</a></b></span> — Chinese technology giant Alibaba (9988.HK) plans to ask major users of the next version of its Qwen open-source AI model for a share … </p>
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