AI News Briefing — August 4: Alibaba opens a Max-class model for the first time, MiniMax publishes H3's weights while carving out the EU, the UK, South Korea and the US, and an AI-proctored entrance exam collapses at Mexico's largest university
Two large models moved on open weights in the same day — one promised for next week, the other published today. They are not opening the same way: the terms of where a model may be used now travel with the weights themselves.