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Pure Apache 2.0 releases versus custom licences that trigger commercial agreements above a revenue threshold.
Mistral released Timestral, four CPU-capable forecasting models, with weights licensed only to firms at or under $20M in monthly revenue. The license text, as DEV Community quotes it, tests the preceding month, so eligibility can change monthly.
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Breeze TTS 2 scores Elo 1215 and lists at $34 per 1M characters, about a third of Eleven v3's rate. Only the inference code is Apache 2.0, and commercial use of the weights needs a written agreement from BreezeBlue.
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Damo Academy's RADAR reports a mean AUC of 0.913 across 146 findings and beat 23 of 26 radiologists, and its weights ship under a research-only licence, so commercial deployment still goes through Alibaba.
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SemiAnalysis counts roughly $350m of state money behind five competing Korean foundation-model consortiums, set against a $919bn infrastructure figure. The gap is where the investment case sits, and it points at hardware.
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The vLLM benchmark shows a finished MP4 arriving before its own playback would end, which is a different property from showing frames as they are made, and MiniMax's community licence still requires separate permission for US, EU, UK and Korean use.
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Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B both landed in August under pure Apache 2.0 and both fit one 24 GB GPU, so the deployment question moves off licence terms and onto how you spend the memory that is left.
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