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Models2026-08-06 · source-backed
Published to Hugging Face August 3, but the Community License Agreement defines an "Applicable Territory" that omits those markets, meaning users there aren't licensed to run, modify, distribute, or even deploy the outputs of locally-run weights. Head of DevRel Ryan Lee attributed the US carve-out to active Hollywood copyright litigation (Discovery's September 2025 suit survived a motion to dismiss on May 26, 2026), not PRC content rules. MiniMax has since issued takedowns against decensoring LoRAs and at least one author deleted their weights. 451 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA. "Open weights" is now a claim you have to read the license to evaluate.
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