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.
replyGood that we have the arbitrator of what "real open source" is and isn't over here.
reply“Open source” is indeed an objective standard with actual criteria, and not just vibes.
replyLuckily, it seems previous Qwen models did get open-sourced in the actual sense, so this one probably will be, too.
Its one NGO trying to dictate what "open source" is and btw. according to that definition, Qwen isn't open source.
replyWhere 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.
replyfair enough, I read too quickly the article.
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