Chinese models now lead open-weight downloads

Share of Hugging Face model downloads over the trailing year. Downloads measure ecosystem gravity, not production deployment or revenue.

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'All other origins' is the residual after the two reported figures. Download share is a leading indicator of which toolchains, formats and defaults the next cohort of builders learns first.

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