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  "id": 1151270,
  "title": "Alibaba’s Qwen tops Hugging Face with 3 billion downloads",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/alibabas-qwen-tops-hugging-face-with-3-billion-downloads",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-16T00:13:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech in Asia",
    "slug": "tech-in-asia",
    "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/news/alibabas-qwen-tops-hugging-face-3-billion-downloads"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Alibaba said Qwen had released more than 460 open-weight models and produced more than 300,000 derivative models.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Alibaba’s Qwen AI Models Cross 3 Billion Downloads, Surpass Google And Meta In Open-Source AI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/alibabas-qwen-ai-models-cross-3-billion-downloads-surpass-google-and",
        "published": "2026-08-15T12:18:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "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)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/alibabas-open-weight-models-have-accumulated-3b-global-downloads-in",
        "published": "2026-08-15T14:30:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}