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Qwen Still Takes Half of Open-LLM Downloads: What Changed in the Hugging Face Top 300 Since September

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TL;DR Is Qwen losing its grip on open-model downloads? A little, and less than the headline number suggests. We compared two snapshots of the 300 most-downloaded text-generation models on Hugging Face, taken on September 17 and November 4, 2026, ranked by trailing 30-day downloads. Qwen's share of…

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  1. 2026-11-05 00:37 · DEV Community — AI
    Qwen Still Takes Half of Open-LLM Downloads: What Changed in the Hugging Face Top 300 Since September

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