#model-licensing

Bria FIBO 2 uses structured image controls. Compare its non-commercial weights, metered self-serve plans and separate Enterprise deployment terms.

Three open checkpoints landed October 21–24, 2026: a dense 33B, a 40B mixture of experts and a 4B-effective voice model. Memory, context and licences compared.

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image Klein: 5.6B open weights that generate and edit images on an 8GB GPU in INT8. Licence limits, API price and who it suits.

Meta's Muse Spark Open puts 816B-parameter open weights behind coding agents. What the licence allows, the hardware it needs and where you can run it.

Meta's new open-weight model against Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 on shared benchmarks, API price, licence triggers and hardware, and which suits your work.

Fish Audio's Drama 3 takes stage directions in brackets, edits single lines in place and ships open weights. Price, licence limits and who it suits.

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp's weights under MIT on August 31, ten days after the API-only launch, with a reference implementation attached.

Z.ai published GLM-5.3's 753B weights on August 28 under a bespoke licence, two days after shipping GLM-5.3-Flash under plain MIT. The clause that differs.

Alibaba open-weighted Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on August 26. The hosted Qwen3.8-Flash is a documented, different artifact — licence, context and tools all diverge.

A dated ledger of 2026 open-weight releases, lining up each announcement against the day weights actually appeared. Some ship same-day; one is still pending.

Three Chinese labs shipped major releases and their licence stories diverge. A buyer's scoreboard on weights, pricing schedules, and benchmark claims.

Alibaba promised Qwen3.8-Max and a 27B sibling for the week of 10 August. Updated: Max weights landed 8 August under a bespoke licence. Run these checks.

Kimi K3's open weights are promised by July 27, not shipped — use the 10-day window to prep hosting for a 2.8T model and check the license before you commit.