Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months …
Alibaba's open-weight models, specifically its Qwen family of artificial intelligence models, have accumulated over 3 billion global downloads in the past six months. This makes Qwen the world's most downloaded open AI model ecosystem.
According to the open-source AI platform Hugging Face, other major tech companies have had significantly fewer downloads. Google had around 418 million downloads, while Meta Platforms had 227 million, both in 2026.
Alibaba's Qwen has released over 460 open-source models, and its ecosystem has generated more than 300,000 derivative models. The company's open-weight models can be downloaded and modified by developers, who can then use them as the foundation for new applications or customised AI systems.
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