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Kimi K3 & Qwen 3.8: Open Weights You Can't Run (2026)
Kimi K3's 2.8T weights need 64 accelerators to load. Qwen 3.8's 27B did ship, Apache 2.0, and fits 24GB. Openness and runnability are separate axes.
Open weights are a weapon now — one country funds them, another wants to gate them
DeepSeek closed a ~$7.4B round with China's state AI fund holding the only voting rights, funding open weights like national infrastructure. The same week, Demis Hassabis called for a FINRA-style body to screen frontier models before release, open or closed. Plus: the twist where the country bankrolling the giveaway floats locking down its own frontier models.
China May Restrict Its AI Exports — Your Local Models Don't Care
China's commerce ministry met Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai about walling off top AI models. The US did the same in June. The weights on your disk don't care.