For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. Chinese developers could start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post. What paid weights would meanThe weights are the parameters that encode a model’s intelligence. Global AI stocks have just been through a sharp selloff, and cheaper Chinese models are one of the cited reasons. Paid weights is either a business model, or the moment that hands the open-source crown to whoever refuses to charge.