Alibaba's Qwen Models Hit 3B Downloads, Dwarfing Google and Meta
eyishazyer · x · 2026-08-15
Alibaba's open-source model family has surpassed 3 billion downloads in six months, significantly outpacing Google (418M) and Meta (227M) according to Hugging Face. The surge is attributed to Alibaba's strategy of shipping usable, permissively licensed weights across all size tiers frequently, rather than annual flagship releases. Developers have built over 300,000 derivatives on the Qwen ecosystem, indicating strong momentum and reduced risk of stagnation compared to Llama.
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