# Alibaba's Qwen leads global open-source AI community with 700 million downloads

_Friday, July 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Alibaba's Qwen family of artificial intelligence models has recorded 700 million downloads on the Hugging Face collaborative AI platform as of this month, making it the most popular open-source AI system worldwide, according to the Qwen team. The Qwen team said that since the second half of last year, the global download growth rate of Qwen has ranked first among the five major open-source model vendors. "Our core goal remains to keep pushing the performance frontier of LLMs while staying committed to open-source openness so that AI can truly help more people around the world," a Qwen team researcher told Xinhua.

## Sources

- [chinadailyhk.com](https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/626974)

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