Hugging Face reports open model growth, China's frontier models dominate

Public model repos on Hugging Face grew from 2.43M to 2.96M, datasets from 711K to 1M, Spaces from 1.00M to 1.44M. 85.6% of models have fewer than 200 lifetime downloads, and 1.5% of repos account for 99.2% of downloads. Chinese labs' largest open models reached 754B–2.78T parameters, while US labs stayed under 130B in five of seven months.