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Qwen3.8-Max's weights went live today under a license that charges companies above $50M in revenue. Kimi K3's asks up to 30% above $20M. Meta's Glimmer is Apache-clean. 'Open weight' just fractured into regimes — this is the map of who pays.

Meta returned to open weights with Muse Glimmer, a 30B model under Apache 2.0, wrapped in a manifesto arguing that distribution is safety. Five days earlier, Meta disclosed its own model had hacked another company. The essay is best read against that timeline.

In roughly fourteen days, four Chinese labs shipped or previewed near-frontier open-weight models — LongCat-2.0, Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8-Max, GLM-5.2. No US lab matched the density. But 'open' is a spectrum being gamed, so this is a map that grades actual openness, not press-release openness.

Moonshot AI shipped a 2.8-trillion-parameter model it calls the world's first open 3T-class model — while reportedly raising at a $30 billion valuation. The interesting number isn't the parameter count. It's that a startup pitching investors on scarcity gave its best asset away.