Why is Qwen going Closed source?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Honest question for people who actually use these models:</p> <p>The main reason I and many others trusted Chinese AI models was open source —

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Anyone thought about this? What do you think needs to happen for them to release the old weights? I’d love to see models like Gemini-2.5, OAI o3,

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sn9fdl/qwencode_cli_free_tier_ended_apr_15_whats_the/"> <img alt="Qwen-Code CLI free tier ended Apr 15 :

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B was released 22 days ago</p> <p>Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B was released 15 days ago</p> <p>Let's predict when we can expect the 9B and

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>If this trend continues, what does it mean for local AI?</p> <p>Are we slowly accepting that the future belongs to larger open-weight models

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B">https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32;

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>Wait, I need to be careful about the &quot;no_think&quot; tag in the system prompt. The system prompt says <code>/no_think</code>.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1srhtvg/where_we_are_in_a_year_everything_has_changed/"> <img alt="Where we are. In a year, everything has