Alibaba AI Models Pass Google, Meta with 3bn Downloads
Alibaba says Qwen reached 3 billion downloads, while Hugging Face counted 2.045 billion this year and noted measurement limits.
- Alibaba announced that its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, positioning the family as the most used open-weight AI globally, surpassing Meta and Google.
- A report from The Hugging Face published a day earlier counts far fewer downloads and derivatives, identifying 151,448 Qwen-based derivatives on its Hub against Alibaba's claim of more than 300,000.
- Pushing Qwen through its cloud into Southeast Asia and Africa, Alibaba offers more than 460 open models with a footprint on The Hugging Face Hub 2.6 times larger than Meta's.
- Amid competition as Meta and Nvidia ship new open models in recent weeks, Beijing is weighing potential curbs on overseas access to its best models.
- Qwen has become a default workflow for developers, though Alibaba noted that download figures exclude API usage, private deployments, and activity outside its ModelScope platform.
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China's Alibaba's open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) Qwen model family has recorded over 3 billion downloads. With this, Qwen has surpassed Meta and Google to become the world's most downloaded open-source AI model family. According to Bloomberg on the 18th, a recent open-source model status report released by the AI platform HuggingFace indicates that in 2026 at the HuggingFace Hub
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Seol Won-tae = China's Alibaba's open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) Qwen model group over the past six months worldwide...
Alibaba AI downloads pass three billion
HANGZHOU: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's open-weight models have accumulated more than three billion global downloads in the past six months, eclipsing Meta Platforms Inc, Alphabet Inc and domestic peers to become the world's No 1 artificial-intelligence (AI) model.
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