Alibaba Cloud's Qwen 3.5 model series has captured over 50% of global open-source AI model downloads as of March. This success underscores the growing dominance of Chinese technology models in the international AI sphere.

Alibaba Cloud captured more than 50 per cent of global open-source model downloads as of March following the release of its Qwen 3.5 model series, a new report has found. The finding underscores the dominance of Chinese models in the global open-source artificial intelligence landscape, though some US companies including OpenAI and Nvidia are also making early gains. Qwen reached nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads by March, far surpassing rivals like Meta Platforms’ Llama and DeepSeek,...