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Alibaba vs Meta on Open-Source AI | Durham News
Alibaba just unleashed Qwen3.8-27B, a powerful AI model that runs natively on your laptop—even with just one graphics card—and it’s already rivaling much larger systems in coding tasks. But here’s the twist: while the smaller version is free, Alibaba’s bigger sibling, Qwen3.8 Max, comes with a price tag for businesses making money off it. Meanwhile, Meta’s Muse Glimmer is completely free—no fees, no catches—playing it safe since their revenue lives in ads and hardware. This sets up a fascinating showdown: Alibaba betting on paid enterprise AI, Meta treating open-source models as loss leaders…
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