Overview
- AIBase, citing Hugging Face data, reports Qwen has surpassed 700 million cumulative downloads as of January.
- December downloads for Qwen exceeded the combined total of the next eight most-popular models on the platform.
- Alibaba’s open-source strategy spans models from roughly 600 million to tens of billions of parameters, broadening use across varied workloads.
- Tens of thousands of applications worldwide have been built on Qwen, and the models power the Qwen assistant, the Quark app, and Ant Group’s A-Fu.
- Alibaba shares have climbed about 87% over the past year and rose in premarket trading Monday, with investors also responding to reports that China may permit limited Nvidia H200 chip imports.