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The grouped phrase says both listed models are "open source models," but Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is not actually open source under the standard definition.

Here’s the evidence:

• In Alibaba’s official announcement for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, the company says "we are opening the weights" and later calls it "an open-weight model". That is materially different from calling it open source.
• The model’s official Hugging Face repository lists the license as qwen-community-1.0, not an OSI-approved open-source license.
• That license includes a field-of-use restriction: if a user conducts a "Model as a Service" or "AI Work Assistant" business, they must obtain a separate license from Qwen before commercial use.
• The Open Source Initiative’s Open Source Definition says an open-source license must not restrict use in a specific field of endeavor and must not require an additional license for downstream users to exercise the rights attached to the software.

Because of those restrictions, calling Qwen 3.8 Flash Next an "open source model" is inaccurate. A more precise description would be open-weight or source-available under a custom community license.

I am not disputing that Kimi K3 may be open/open-source under its own terms; the problem is that this phrase groups Qwen 3.8 Flash Next into the same "open source" bucket, which its published licensing terms do not support.