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Stocks· August 07, 2026 at 01:04 AM

Exclusive-Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model, sources say

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Onur Erkan Yıldız
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Chinese technology giant Alibaba plans to ask major users of the next version of its Qwen open-source AI model for a share of revenue they make from the hotly anticipated offering, according to two people familiar with the company's plans. 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 do

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