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

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By Ana Maria ConstantinAug 16, 2026, 3:58 am181 ptsTrendingTop
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…

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