According to AIbase, the latest data from the world's largest AI open-source community, Hugging Face, shows that Alibaba's Qwen large model is leading the global open-source ecosystem with a significant advantage. As of early 2026, the cumulative downloads of the Qwen series have astonishingly exceeded 700 million, making it the most widely adopted open-source model among global developers.

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In the just-ended December 2025, the growth curve of the Qwen model showed explosive momentum. Data shows that the monthly downloads of Qwen even exceeded the combined total of the 2nd to 9th most popular models globally, with competitors including Meta's Llama, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Mistral, NVIDIA, and domestic companies Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax.

Since the download volume officially surpassed Meta in the second half of 2025, Alibaba's Qwen has continuously held the top position on the open-source community for several months. This achievement is attributed to its comprehensive open-source strategy - from lightweight Qwen3-0.6B to ultra-large-scale Qwen3-Max, as well as full-modal coverage in areas such as vision, audio, and code. The Qwen series can now compete directly with top closed-source models like GPT-5-high in multiple performance metrics. Currently, tens of thousands of real-world applications around the globe have been built based on Qwen, marking a historic peak in the status of domestic open-source large models within the international developer community.