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State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

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Impact: 80%

Updated 1h ago

Consensus Brief

The AI model landscape has shifted significantly, with Chinese labs releasing larger models than American counterparts. Public model repositories on the Hugging Face hub have increased substantially, but the distribution of downloads remains heavily skewed towards a small number of models.

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What Changed Since Last Update

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Chinese labs have begun releasing models exceeding 754B parameters, while American labs have not surpassed 130B parameters in most months of 2026.

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Public model repositories grew from 2.43 to 2.96 million.

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Chinese labs released models between 754B and 2.78 trillion parameters in 2026.

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The two organizations publishing the most new open models this year are AMD and NVIDIA.

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Not one model published in 2026 reaches the download top 25.

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State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

Hugging Face·16h ago