Chinese AI Labs: Model Scaling and Monetization Shifts

ByteDance banned internal distillation in 2023, the only major Chinese lab not accused by Anthropic, but its models have fallen behind rivals. Now ByteDance is reportedly training a massive 10T-parameter model to rival Anthropic's Mythos. Alibaba shifts Qwen to revenue-sharing for large enterprises, mirroring Moonshot's Kimi K3 approach. This signals a move toward freemium models and challenges the assumption of free open-source AI.