Open-Weights

DeepSeek releases V4-Flash under MIT license — the first Chinese frontier open-weight model under a truly permissive OSI-style license; Alibaba moves Qwen toward revenue-sharing for large commercial users, creating a new ‘open weights, paid use’ institutional form; Reuters and Yahoo report Beijing has met with Alibaba and ByteDance to discuss curbing overseas access to its most advanced AI models, moving the July export-control debate from rumor toward implementation.

Xi Jinping champions open-source AI at WAIC 2026; Moonshot’s Kimi K3 becomes the largest open-weight model ever; China releases AI cooperation action plan; Beijing studies export controls on frontier models.