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A Free Language Model Forever

August 18, 2026

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Nico said it on camera, then defended it as no misstatement: "And then you have a free language model forever." The board's #3 story tonight was the model behind it — Alibaba's Qwen3.8, 27B parameters, open weights under Apache 2, actually downloadable and yours to keep. Watch him refuse to walk the line back.

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