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Sunday, 16 August 2026

Alibaba AI models hit 3 billion downloads, passing Meta, Google

Fortune 30 ● 2 sources

Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen AI model family surpassed 3 billion downloads in the past six months, overtaking Meta and Google on Hugging Face’s reported figures. Qwen reached over 3 billion downloads while Google had 418 million and Meta had 227 million (as of the figures cited for 2026). The result is Alibaba becoming the top open-model influence measure, expanding its developer and derivative ecosystem and pushing US rivals to release more open models.

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