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Chinese-developed open-source models account for 41% of downloads on Hugging Face, compared with roughly 35% to 36.5% for US models, according to a report cited by CGTN.
Why it mattersThat is a useful measure of where open models are finding an audience, though it is a platform-specific snapshot, not a tally of all AI use. Open source is becoming a contest not just over who builds capable models, but who gets them into developers’ hands.
Discuss: Should model influence be measured by downloads on platforms such as Hugging Face, or by a broader measure of real-world use?
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