Alibaba's Qwen crosses 3 billion downloads, overtakes Google and Meta in AI models
CNBC Television·2026-08-17 16:00AI from China's Alibaba has recently blown past technology from Meta and Alphabet in terms of popularity. Global downloads of Alibaba's Qwen in the last 6 months have passed 3 billion, making it the most popular model in the world. Google had about 400 million downloads in the same time period, and Meta had about 200 million.That's according to a report from software development platform Hugging Face. It shows Alibaba's technology is also eclipsing popularity of other Chinese models, including those from De ...