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Alibaba's Qwen just out-downloaded Meta's open models 9 to 1 this year on Hugging Face, the platform Llama built its reputation on. Google did 418 million downloads in 2026. Meta did 227 million. Qwen did 2 billion, and the download count is the least interesting number in the report. The interesting one is 300,000. That's how many derivative models developers have built on top of Qwen's 460 open releases. Every fine-tune is a team that trained on Qwen's architecture, learned Qwen's quirks,…