@rohanpaul_ai: Beyond model capability, China's open-model lead is becoming a distribution advantage: Qwen hit 942M Hugging Face downl…
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China's open-model lead is becoming a distribution advantage, with Qwen hitting 942 million Hugging Face downloads and Chinese open-weight models rising to over 45% of OpenRouter tokens, as cited in a Mozilla report.
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Beyond model capability, China’s open-model lead is becoming a distribution advantage:
Qwen hit 942M Hugging Face downloads, more than the next eight organizations combined, while Chinese open-weight models rose from under 2% to over 45% of OpenRouter tokens.
Mozilla also cites DeepSeek appearing in 58% of new AI-startup stacks
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): Mozilla just published a 91-page report and it says open-weight AI is now only about 4 months behind the frontier.
- 8 of OpenRouter’s 10 most-used models by August token volume were open-weight, and 7 were Chinese-built, while DeepSeek became the first open model to lead the
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