Alibaba’s Qwen tops Hugging Face with 3 billion downloads
Alibaba said Qwen had released more than 460 open-weight models and produced more than 300,000 derivative models.
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- Alibaba’s Qwen AI Models Cross 3 Billion Downloads, Surpass Google And Meta In Open-Source AI freepressjournal.in
- 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) bloomberg.com