Hugging Face report: small models dominate real-world usage, Qwen leads local inference
huggingface · x · 2026-08-15
Hugging Face's State of Open Models Summer 2026 report reveals that while frontier models grow larger, small models dominate real-world usage. Qwen leads local inference, followed by Gemma. AI agents are becoming a major force on the Hub.
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