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Hugging Face's Summer 2026 open-model census: Qwen has 151,448 derivatives, and Claude Code is 44% of agent traffic
Hugging Face published a data-heavy state-of-the-ecosystem report on Aug 14 covering January–August 2026: model repos grew 2.43M → 2.96M, datasets 711K → 1M, and 85.6% of models have under 200 lifetime downloads. Chinese labs shipped monthly parameter ceilings of 754B–2.78T against sub-130B for US labs, and 59% of Chinese releases above 20B use Apache 2.0. The finding most relevant to builders: agent-tagged traffic is now a tracked category, with Claude Code at 44.4% of it in July and nearly 24% coming from unregistered harnesses.
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