Open-Source LLMs
Whether you can download the weights decides who controls the model: you can fine-tune it, run it on your own GPUs and keep it offline — in exchange for running inference, upgrades and incident response yourself.
Open versus closed weights is rarely about which model is stronger; it comes down to whether data can leave the intranet, whether the team can run operations, and whether call volume keeps climbing. Qwen3-Omni ships Instruct, Thinking and Captioner variants under Apache-2.0, while MiniMax M2.1 uses a Modified-MIT license for coding and agents. Inference hosting and incident response are yours — read the license before benchmarks.
