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title: "Alibaba Qwen Hits 3 Billion Downloads to Become World's Most Downloaded Model Family"
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published_at: "2026-08-16T14:38:19.000Z"
category: "Models"
topics: ["alibaba","qwen","open-source","huggingface","llm"]
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summary: "The Qwen model family from Alibaba now outperforms competitors like Meta and Google in global adoption. Its open weight models accumulated more than 3B global downloads in the past six months, making it the most downloaded artificial intelligence model in the world. The company's latest release, Qwen3.8-27B, became the top trending model on Hugging Face this week. That specific version recorded 4.5M total downloads in less than two days following its launch."
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# Alibaba Qwen Hits 3 Billion Downloads to Become World's Most Downloaded Model Family

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**Published:** 2026-08-16T14:38:19.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** alibaba, qwen, open\-source, huggingface, llm

## Summary

The Qwen model family from Alibaba now outperforms competitors like Meta and Google in global adoption\. Its open weight models accumulated more than 3B global downloads in the past six months, making it the most downloaded artificial intelligence model in the world\. The company's latest release, Qwen3\.8\-27B, became the top trending model on Hugging Face this week\. That specific version recorded 4\.5M total downloads in less than two days following its launch\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/alibaba-qwen-hits-3-billion-downloads-to-become-worlds-most-downloaded-m-e738680b>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/vanstriendaniel/status/2088925595975500000>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2088893370987102543>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/SusanLiTV/status/2088649862778614182>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2088950679788453956>)