Alibaba’s Qwen family captures over 50% of global open-source downloads, report finds
SCMP Tech / 4/10/2026
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Key Points
- A report says Alibaba’s Qwen model family accounts for more than 50% of global downloads of open-source AI models, indicating dominant adoption among open releases.
- Qwen reportedly reaches nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads, substantially outpacing other popular open-source model families such as Meta’s Llama and DeepSeek.
- The findings suggest Alibaba has become a major distribution and community-momentum driver in the open-source LLM ecosystem.
- High download share points to strong downstream impact on developers’ model selection, experimentation, and deployment workflows that rely on open weights.
Alibaba Cloud captured more than 50 per cent of global open-source model downloads as of March following the release of its Qwen 3.5 model series, a new report has found.
The finding underscores the dominance of Chinese models in the global open-source artificial intelligence landscape, though some US companies including OpenAI and Nvidia are also making early gains.
Qwen reached nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads by March, far surpassing rivals like Meta Platforms’ Llama and DeepSeek,...
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