Qwen reportedly hits 942 million Hugging Face downloads
A user discussing a Mozilla report says Chinese open-weight models grew from under 2% to over 45% of OpenRouter tokens, pointing to their expanding reach.
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Qwen’s 942 million Hugging Face downloads exceed those of the next eight organizations combined, according to a user discussing Mozilla’s 91-page report on open-weight AI. The user also says Mozilla cites DeepSeek appearing in 58% of new AI-startup stacks.
The user’s summary puts open-weight AI about four months behind frontier models. It says eight of OpenRouter’s 10 most-used models by August token volume were open-weight, and seven were Chinese-built.
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