Open-Weight AI Dominance: Alibaba Qwen Hits 3B Downloads, DeepSeek Exposed in Real-World Tests

Alibaba's Qwen family just crossed 3 billion global downloads, crushing Meta's Llama (227 million) and Google's open models (418 million) by an order of magnitude. The open-weight AI market has a new king, and it's Chinese.

Evidence For

• Alibaba's Qwen ecosystem now encompasses over 460 open-source models and has spawned more than 300,000 derivative models,...