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Since Lambert began tracking in August 2025, Chinese open-weight models have been downloaded approximately 3.2 billion times on Hugging Face, while U.S. models have been downloaded approximately 1.6 billion times, meaning China has already reached twice the figure of the United States.
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9/23/2026
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