Four Labs Converged on a $20M Revenue Gate. For Agent Builders, That Is a Deployment Ceiling

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Four license files, three jurisdictions, one number. In eleven weeks, StepFun, Meta, Moonshot AI, and Mistral each began gating commercial deployment of open-weight models at $20 million in revenue. For agent builders that figure is not a price. It is a ceiling. Our 24-hour open-weight taxonomy sorted what “open” came to mean this month; these gates decide how far what you build on it may scale. What the four gates actually say Three of the four licenses were read in full for this piece.
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