Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’s claim of more than 300,000.
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, putting the family ahead of anything from Meta or Google. It is the clearest claim yet that Chinese labs are winning the open-weight race.
The report it rests on says something slightly different. Hugging Face’s State of Open Models, published the day before, counts 2,045 million Qwen downloads this year, or 2,061 million including every repository. The 3 billion figure came from Alibaba’s own emailed statement.
The gap does not change who is first. It does mean the headline number is about a third larger than the platform being cited actually recorded.
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