Another closed model dressed up as "coming soon" open source. The pattern is obvious: generate hype with a polished demo, lock the weights, then quietly move on. Real open source doesn't need a press release countdown.
That's not what they did with Qwen-Image v1 - they announced it and it was available via API, but then they released the weights a few weeks after with an Apache 2.0 license. Let's at least give them the benefit of the doubt here.
> Its one NGO trying to dictate what "open source" is
If you're referring to the OSI, they're the ones who invented the term “open source” in the first place, and are authoritative on what counts as “open source” and what doesn't.
> and btw. according to that definition, Qwen isn't open source.
Well yes, the lack of open-sourcing being the context of this thread :)
Where do you see a press release countdown? Alibaba consistently doesn't release weights for their biggest models, but they also don't pretend that they do.