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According to a post on X by @QwenAIFans, citing The Korea Herald, Korea-linked accounts published 1,845 new models on Hugging Face from January to August. The post says 49.3% of them were built on Chinese base models, up from 1.2% three years ago and 22% last year. Qwen alone accounted for 864 models (46.8%), ahead of Gemma at 14.7% and Llama at 13.8%, while Korean base models totaled 14.9%.
According to a post on X by @QwenAIFans, citing The Korea Herald, Korea-linked accounts published 1,845 new models on Hugging Face from January to August. The post says 49.3% of them were built on Chinese base models, up from 1.2% three years ago and 22% last year. Qwen alone accounted for 864 models (46.8%), ahead of Gemma at 14.7% and Llama at 13.8%, while Korean base models totaled 14.9%.
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Citing The Korea Herald, the post says Korea-linked accounts published 1,845 new models on Hugging Face from January to August, and 49.3% were built on Chinese base models, up from 1.2% three years ago and 22% last year. Qwen alone accounted for 864 (46.8%), ahead of Gemma at 14.7% and Llama at 13.8%, while Korean...
The figures suggest that much of the open-model development by Korea-linked developers now relies on Chinese base models, especially Qwen. Teams choosing a base model for fine-tuning may want to watch how this shift affects licensing, support and model quality. The source is a social post relaying a news report, so the underlying data should be checked in the original Korea Herald coverage.
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