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Models·6d ago·all news from August 16, 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen tops Hugging Face with 3 billion downloads

Alibaba has reached 3 billion cumulative downloads for its Qwen model series on the Hugging Face platform. This milestone highlights the growing global adoption of open-source AI models developed in China as they compete with established Western alternatives.

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