{"id":1027286,"date":"2026-08-08T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027286"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:42:42","slug":"alibaba-plans-to-charge-big-users-of-its-next-open-source-ai-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/alibaba-plans-to-charge-big-users-of-its-next-open-source-ai-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese technology giant Alibaba plans to ask major users of the next version of its Qwen open-source AI model for a share \u200bof revenue they make from the hotly anticipated offering, \u200baccording to two people familiar with the company&#8217;s plans. <\/p>\n<p>Like last month&#8217;s blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, \u200bAlibaba&#8217;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, U.S. developers OpenAI, Anthropic and Alphabet&#8217;s Google have closed-source models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese technology giant Alibaba plans to ask major users of the next version of its Qwen open-source AI model for a share \u200bof revenue they make from the hotly anticipated offering, \u200baccording to two people familiar with the company&#8217;s plans. Like last month&#8217;s blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, \u200bAlibaba&#8217;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, U.S. developers OpenAI, Anthropic and Alphabet&#8217;s Google have closed-source models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027295,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027286\/revisions\/1027295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}