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American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads. “They’re clearly dominating on open models […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Published: 8 August 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 10 August 2026

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