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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
HANGZHOU, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Alibaba's Qwen family of artificial intelligence (AI) models has recorded 700 million downloads on the Hugging Face AI collaboration platform as of January 2026, making it the most popular open-source AI system in the world, according to the Qwen development team.
Hugging Face data shows that by October 2025, the Qwen family had overtaken Meta's Llama in terms of downloads. In December of that year, its monthly downloads exceeded the combined total of the following eight popular models: Meta, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Mistral, Nvidia, Zhipu.AI, Moonshot, and MiniMax.
Alibaba made Qwen models open-source in 2023, becoming the first major Chinese tech company to open-source its own large language model (LLM) to the public.
The Qwen family covers both text and multimodal tasks and supports 119 languages and regional dialects.
According to the Qwen team, Alibaba currently has nearly 400 open-source models in the Qwen family, with over 180,000 derivative versions. These figures cement the family's position as the most prolific open-source LLM in the world.
The team stated that since the second half of last year, the Qwen family has taken first place among the five largest open-source model providers in terms of growth in global downloads.
“Our core goal remains to push the boundaries of LLM capabilities while maintaining a commitment to open source so that AI can truly help more people around the world,” the team noted.
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