HF Download Counts Still the Go-To Metric; Muse and Qwen Impress

ariG23498 · x · 2026-08-17

The author argues that while Hugging Face download metrics are debatable, they remain their most-used signal for picking a model or collection, and calls out Meta's Muse and Alibaba's Qwen model families as particularly impressive.

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