Alibaba's Qwen tops 3B downloads, dethroning Meta and Google in open AI
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen family passed 3 billion downloads in six months, outpacing Meta (227M) and Google (418M) to become the world's most-adopted AI model line, per Hugging Face. With 460+ open-sourced models and 300,000+ derivatives, Qwen is now a default developer choice, signaling Chinese open models are winning the global developer race.