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Qwen downloads on HuggingFace are said to exceed Meta and Google

This claim reflects changes in Qwen’s developer adoption amid competition among open-source model platforms.

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2026-08-19

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The poster says Alibaba Qwen surpassed 3 billion global downloads in six months and has overtaken Meta and Google on HuggingFace, becoming the most-downloaded, most-integrated, and most-forked open-source AI model.

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