Alibaba's Qwen becomes world's most downloaded open AI model
Alibaba’s Qwen open AI model family has surpassed Meta and Google in downloads, with cumulative global downloads topping 3 billion across platforms, according to Alibaba and Hugging Face’s open-model report. On Hugging Face Hub in 2026, Qwen recorded about 2.045 billion downloads versus about 418 million for Google and 227 million for Meta. Qwen has 460+ open models and 300,000+ derivatives.



