Hugging Face Report: Qwen Ecosystem Surpasses Llama by 4.7x
nordicinst · x · 2026-08-30
According to Hugging Face's 2026 open-source ecosystem report, Alibaba's Qwen series has spawned over 151,000 downstream models, a footprint 2.6 times the size of Meta's ecosystem. Since early 2026, Qwen models accumulated roughly 2.045 billion downloads, overshadowing Google (418M) and Meta (227M), with Chinese open-source models accounting for 41% of global downloads. The report suggests this thriving ecosystem challenges US diplomatic efforts to partition global technology blocs.
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