Alibaba's Qwen passes 3B downloads; derivative models 4.7x Llama's count
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-15
Bloomberg reports that Alibaba's open-weight Qwen family has crossed 3 billion global downloads.
Hugging Face counts 151,448 Qwen-based derivative models — 2.6x Meta's total footprint and 4.7x the number of Llama repositories. The report quotes the assessment that Qwen "has become part of the default workflow for developers deciding what models to fine-tune and deploy," signaling that leadership in open-source model ecosystems is shifting decisively toward Qwen.
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