Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

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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, […]