According to the "State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations" report by Hugging Face, Alibaba's AI models have reached a cumulative total of 3 billion downloads on the platform. This milestone marks a significant shift in the open-source landscape, as Alibaba has now surpassed both Meta and Google in total model downloads.
- Alibaba's models achieved 3 billion cumulative downloads on Hugging Face.
- The company passed Meta and Google to take the top spot for total downloads.
- The data is sourced from Hugging Face's Summer 2026 report on open models.