Alibaba Group’s open-source Qwen AI models surpassed 3 billion global downloads in the last six months.
This figure significantly outpaces major U.S. competitors. Google recorded 418 million downloads and Meta reached 227 million over the past year, according to data from Hugging Face.
Hugging Face reports that Qwen is now a default workflow for developers selecting models to fine-tune and deploy.
Download volume and the creation of derivative models serve as primary success metrics in the competitive open-source AI landscape.