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title: "Alibaba Qwen Tops 3 Billion Downloads in 6 Months, Eclipsing Meta as Global No. 1"
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summary: "The company's Qwen model series has surpassed competing systems from Meta and Alphabet to lead the market in open-weight software distribution. This open-weight family reached more than 3 billion global downloads over the last six months to become the world's most used AI model. Hugging Face recorded 151,448 Qwen-based derivatives, a volume that is 2.6 times Meta's overall footprint and 4.7 times that of Llama repositories. Qwen has become part of the default workflow for developers choosing which models to fine-tune and deploy."
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# Alibaba Qwen Tops 3 Billion Downloads in 6 Months, Eclipsing Meta as Global No\. 1

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**Published:** 2026-08-15T11:37:48.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** qwen, adoption, downloads

## Summary

The company's Qwen model series has surpassed competing systems from Meta and Alphabet to lead the market in open\-weight software distribution\. This open\-weight family reached more than 3 billion global downloads over the last six months to become the world's most used AI model\. Hugging Face recorded 151,448 Qwen\-based derivatives, a volume that is 2\.6 times Meta's overall footprint and 4\.7 times that of Llama repositories\. Qwen has become part of the default workflow for developers choosing which models to fine\-tune and deploy\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-alibaba-qwen-tops-3-billion-downloads-in-6-months-eclipsing-meta-ad7de014>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/business/status/2088578995830882498>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2088575850140799062>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2088467890467168751>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2088471287203246227>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2088466210895823024>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/cerebras/status/2088419572416147582>)