Alibaba plans revenue sharing for next open-source Qwen AI model

Alibaba plans to require large commercial users of its next open-source Qwen3.8-Max AI model to share a portion of their generated revenue, a move shifting from their prior model of fee-free deployment outside Alibaba Cloud. This revenue sharing strategy is aligned with a similar approach taken by Chinese AI startup Moonshot.

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