Hugging Face Report Finds Small Models Dominate Usage

Hugging Face posted its State of Open Models Summer 2026 report. The post states that frontier models continue to grow larger while small models still dominate real-world usage. It adds that Qwen leads local inference and Gemma follows. AI agents are described as a major force on the Hub. The Qwen account replied that it was proud to see its models leading local inference and thanked Hugging Face for the work.