Alibaba Qwen tops 3 billion downloads

Alibaba's Qwen open-weight models surpassed 3 billion global downloads in six months, topping Meta, Google, and OpenAI. Hugging Face counted 2,045 million Qwen downloads this year and 151,448 derivatives, versus Alibaba's claim of over 300,000. Alibaba has open-sourced more than 460 models.