Alibaba's Qwen becomes world's most downloaded open AI model

Alibaba's Qwen AI model family has become the world's most downloaded open AI model, surpassing Meta and Google on Hugging Face with over 3 billion cumulative global downloads and a rapidly expanding developer ecosystem.

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