Alibaba Qwen tops 3B downloads, leads open-weight AI

Alibaba's Qwen models surpassed 3 billion downloads, eclipsing Meta and Google to become the world's most-used open-weight AI family. The company has open-sourced over 460 models and spawned 300,000-plus derivatives, while Hugging Face counts 2,045 million Qwen downloads and 151,448 derivatives this year.