HF Report: Qwen GGUF Downloads Hit 39.6M, Dwarfing Llama's 7.5M
close_Meal6005 · reddit · 2026-08-21
Hugging Face's biannual report reveals a massive shift in local model adoption: Qwen GGUF downloads reached 39.6M per month, significantly surpassing Gemma (20.8M) and Llama (7.5M). The report also notes a 464% growth in GGUF library usage over seven months, with sub-1B models accounting for 83% of all-time downloads.
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