Hugging Face

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March 2026

Hugging Face
Also Released

State of Open Source Spring 2026 Report

Hugging Face report: China passes US in LLM count, Qwen tops 1B downloads

Hugging Face published its Spring 2026 State of Open Source report showing China surpassing the US in number of LLMs for the first time, with Chinese models taking 41% of all downloads. Alibaba's Qwen family crossed 1 billion total downloads (about 1 million per day), overtaking Llama as the most downloaded model family, on a platform now hosting 11M users and 2M+ models.

Hugging Face blog ↗Irene Solaiman on X ↗AeonCorridor on X ↗
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November 2025

Hugging Face
Also ReleasedOpen weights

Smol Training Playbook

Hugging Face publishes the Smol Training Playbook for LLM pretraining

Hugging Face published the Smol Training Playbook, a 200+ page end-to-end guide to reliably pretraining and operating LLMs. It distills the team's practical experience from the SmolLM line into an open resource for anyone training their own models.

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February 2025

January 2025

Hugging Face
New ModelsOpen weights

SmolVLM (256M)

Hugging Face SmolVLM: tiny vision-language models run on WebGPU

Hugging Face released SmolVLM, a family of tiny vision-language models including a 256M-parameter version small enough to run entirely in the browser via WebGPU. It demonstrates how far efficient multimodal models have shrunk while remaining usable.

256M Parameters (smallest VLM)
SmolVLM-256M WebGPU demo on Hugging Face ↗
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