Alibaba's Qwen Model Downloads Surpass 3 Billion, Topping Global Open-Source AI Models

Odaily Planet Daily News: Alibaba Group's open-source large model family Qwen has surpassed 3 billion cumulative global downloads over the past six months, exceeding competitors such as Meta and Alphabet, making it the most downloaded open-source AI model to date. Alibaba stated that the Qwen series has open-sourced over 460 models, with more than 300,000 derivative models in its ecosystem. According to the "State of Open Models" report released by Hugging Face, Google models recorded approximately 418 million downloads in 2026, while Meta saw around 227 million. The report indicated that Qwen has become one of the "default workflows" for developers when fine-tuning and deploying models, establishing Alibaba as a key foundation within the open AI ecosystem. (Bloomberg)