Hugging Face’s 2026 Open Model Report: Qwen Leads, Hype vs. Reality

Hugging Face's mid-2026 ecosystem report documents a structural split in open-weight AI: trillion-parameter Chinese models grab headlines, but a small sentence-embedding model gets pulled nearly 1.6 billion times. Here's what the data actually means for developers. The post Hugging Face’s 2026 Open Model Report: Qwen Leads, Hype vs. Reality first appeared on TUN .