Alibaba Qwen tops 3 billion downloads, leads open models

Alibaba's Qwen open-weight models surpassed 3 billion downloads in six months, topping Meta and Google. 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.