Whose open AI models are downloaded the most?

251 million

Alibaba’s models on Hugging Face had 251 million downloads in the 30 days to 3 Nov 2026, the most of any frontier lab.

For 3 Nov 2026. Data checked 3 Nov 2026, from downloads-labs.csv.

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Jesse Hawkins, “Whose open AI models are downloaded the most?”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 3 Nov 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/most-downloaded-open-models/. Data: Hugging Face Hub API, counts from the Hub API, with a link to each model, as this site publishes it in frontier/downloads-labs.csv; checked 3 Nov 2026.

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@misc{hawkins2026answersmostdownloadedopenmodels,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Whose open AI models are downloaded the most?}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/most-downloaded-open-models/}},
  note = {Data: Hugging Face Hub API, counts from the Hub API, with a link to each model, as this site publishes it in frontier/downloads-labs.csv; checked 3 Nov 2026, retrieved 2026-11-03}
}

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Jesse Hawkins, “Whose open AI models are downloaded the most?”, jesseahawkins.com, data checked 3 Nov 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/most-downloaded-open-models/

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Hugging Face Hub API (counts from the Hub API, with a link to each model), as this site publishes it in downloads-labs.csv: Open-weight downloads by Frontier lab, read each week from the Hugging Face Hub.