Alibaba's open-weight Qwen family; among the most-downloaded and most-forked models on Hugging Face, Apache-2.0 licensed. The de-facto base model for a large share of open-source AI derivatives worldwide.
Most-downloaded open-weight family on Hugging Face
2023
Investment figures are declared/announced amounts. OpenAI's $122B includes conditional and vendor-linked components (~$37B immediate cash). Valuations are post-money where reported. Key claims externally validated June-July 2026 (TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, NYT, Quartz). Relationship years are first-public-announcement years; long-tail partnerships without a public record carry era estimates (flagged yearEstimated).
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