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On 27 July 2026 NVIDIA and 36 partners launched the Open Secure AI Alliance and open-sourced NOOA, days after closed APIs blocked forensics in the Hugging Face breach. A guide to open vs closed AI-agent security.
Kimi K3 (2.8T), DeepSeek V4 (1.6T) and GLM-5.2 (753B) are all open-weight and frontier-class. This decision matrix compares GPU footprint, API list price, and the monthly output-token volume where self-hosting each one
Qwen3.8-Max carries 2.4 trillion total parameters and needs roughly 1.2TB of VRAM at 4-bit. The number that decides whether you can run it, the active-parameter count, is the one Alibaba has not published.
Thinking Machines released Inkling on 15 July 2026 under Apache 2.0: 975B parameters, 41B active. We priced the GPUs against the Tinker API using AWS and vendor figures, and the break-even is brutal.
Chinese-built AI models now run 30 to 46% of US enterprise API tokens, up from about 4.5% in early 2025, driven by prices 60 to 90% below OpenAI and Anthropic. The cost case and the governance risks to weigh.
