alt Hacker NewsAnother closed model dressed up as "coming soon" open source. The pattern is obvious: generate hype with a polished demo, lock the weights, then quietly move on. Real open source doesn't need a press release countdown.
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kkzz99 • yesterday at 12:11 PM
Good that we have the arbitrator of what "real open source" is and isn't over here.
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yorwba • yesterday at 1:13 PM
Where do you see a press release countdown? Alibaba consistently doesn't release weights for their biggest models, but they also don't pretend that they do.
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That's not what they did with Qwen-Image v1 - they announced it and it was available via API, but then they released the weights a few weeks after with an Apache 2.0 license. Let's at least give them the benefit of the doubt here.