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Nathan Lambert of the Allen Institute for AI says Google's Gemma 4 models are outpacing Alibaba's Qwen in cumulative downloads

Analysts cite Google's Apache 2.0 license as the driver

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OPNathan Lambert#64Nathan Lambert@NATOLAMBERT

Gemma 4 adoption numbers outpacing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for the same sized models is a big shift in the international balance of influence via open models.

8:42 AM · May 26, 2026 View on X
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Nathan LambertNathan Lambert@natolambert

Gemma 4 adoption numbers outpacing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for the same sized models is a big shift in the international balance of influence via open models.

3:42 PM · May 26, 2026 · 77.9K Views
9:01 PM · May 26, 2026 · 89 Views
QUOTE POSTswyx#214swyx@SWYX

everybody talks about the china->us catchup

not enough people talking about the us-> china catchup

great job @o_lacombe et al, @robert_mchardy et al!

7:13 PM · May 26, 2026 · 2.8K Views
QUOTE POSTFlorian Brand#1153Florian Brand@XEOPHON

what releasing a banger model under apache 2.0 does to the download numbers 📈

Nathan LambertNathan Lambert@natolambert

Gemma 4 adoption numbers outpacing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for the same sized models is a big shift in the international balance of influence via open models.

3:42 PM · May 26, 2026 · 77.9K Views
3:44 PM · May 26, 2026 · 5.4K Views