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Report: Alibaba Eyes Revenue Share for Open-Source AI System
Alibaba would keep Qwen weights free while asking large commercial users to share revenue, following Moonshot’s licensing model for open-weight AI.
- Alibaba Group shares jumped about 7% after unveiling Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date. The Chinese technology group positioned the model for coding, research, and long-running agent tasks.
- While Alibaba's cloud business in the Asia Pacific region grew 38% year-over-year to $6 billion last quarter, its legacy e-commerce and retail operations expanded only 6% due to intense competition and weak consumer spending.
- Qwen3.8-Max features 2.4 trillion total parameters, activating about 95 billion at a time, and supports a one-million-token context window. The model ranked fifth overall on major AI leaderboards, demonstrating competitive capability.
- Alibaba plans to implement a revenue-sharing model next week, asking major users to share profits generated from the system. This mirrors Moonshot's approach, which requires partners to contribute up to 30% of revenue.
- The real contest is shifting from who has the smartest chatbot to who offers the best combination of capability, cost, control and availability. Success depends on whether developers outside China find Qwen3.8-Max affordable and reliable enough for real-world deployment.
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Pakistan Live NewsAlibaba to charge heavy commercial users on next open source AI models
Alibaba is planning to implement a revenue-sharing model for major commercial users of its upcoming open-source/open-weight AI models such as the next-generation Qwen3.8-Max.The move will marks a...
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