[Alibaba's Qwen Model Surpasses 3 Billion Downloads, Tops Global Open-Source AI Models] According to Bloomberg, Alibaba Group's open-source large model family, Qwen, has accumulated over 3 billion downloads globally in the past six months, surpassing competitors such as Meta and Alphabet to become the most downloaded open-source AI model currently. Alibaba stated that the Qwen series has open-sourced over 460 models, with more than 300,000 derivative models in its ecosystem. Based on the "State of Open Models" report published by Hugging Face, Google's model downloads are projected to reach approximately 418 million by 2026, while Meta's are estimated at around 227 million. The report highlights that Qwen has become one of the "default workflows" for developers when fine-tuning and deploying models, establishing Alibaba as a key foundation in the open AI ecosystem.