HuggingFace State of Open Source Spring 2026: 13M Users, 41% Chinese Model Downloads, Robotics Up 23x
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Released March 17, Hugging Face's Spring 2026 report shows 13M users and 2M+ models on the Hub. Chinese models (Qwen, DeepSeek) now account for 41% of all downloads — forcing the defining question of 2026: can US/EU alternatives (GPT-OSS, OLMo, Gemma) match their adoption momentum? Robotics datasets have exploded 23x year-over-year, signaling open-source AI expanding beyond language and image generation into physical AI.