Hacker News Reader

Kimi K3 is more like "weights available" in that you can download and use them but it is under a custom license that has a bunch of limitations where you have to pay Moonshot for doing some stuff. GLM 5.2 on the other hand is plain old MIT.

Not sure how Qwen3.8-Max is going to be licensed, hopefully it'll be Apache like the smaller ones.

View on HN

You can do whatever you want with the model within your own organization. If you use it commercially—either as a model-as-a-service business or in a very large-scale product—you should check the additional license terms, which go beyond MIT. My interpretation is that Moonshot cares about the exact inference behavior and accurate representation of their model or derivatives, and perhaps also about capturing some additional value despite their own GPU limitations, so the extra license terms focus on those large-scale commercial deployments.

Considering that very few orgs are going to be able to host a 3T parameter model internally, chances are most deployments would be subject to these restrictions and require a separate license from Moonshot.

Any US organization can rent compute.

probably will be few clicks in dashboard of your org's cloud provider.

Kimi’s policy is extreme reasonable.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com