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Open models, from Hugging Face

Open models, trending now.

AI models anyone can download, run and build on, as they trend on Hugging Face, where labs, companies and developers post them: who made each one and where, what it does, its license, and the most downloaded and most liked.

  • 8 of 20top trending models from labs and companies are from China
  • 41%of downloads in the year to March 2026 went to Chinese models, Hugging Face says
  • 2M+public models on Hugging Face in 2025, by its own count
Made where

Where they're made.

Where today's top trending models from labs and companies were made, beside Hugging Face's own figures for the past year.

Made whereTop 20 trending, from labs and companies
  • China8
  • US8
  • France2
  • Germany1
  • Israel1
49.6%

of all downloads go to the 200 most downloaded models, out of more than 2 million. About half of all models have fewer than 200 downloads.

Hugging Face, State of Open Source: Spring 2026

13M

users: Hugging Face grew to 13 million of them in 2025, and to more than 2 million public models.

Hugging Face, State of Open Source: Spring 2026

Most downloaded

The workhorses.

The models fetched most in the last 30 days are mostly parts of other software: they power search, sort text or label pictures, inside apps that download them over and over. 8 of these ten were posted on Hugging Face in 2023 or earlier.

  1. 1all-MiniLM-L6-v2Sentence Transformers (open-source project) · Powers search · 2022186.3M
  2. 2ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2Sentence Transformers (open-source project) · Ranks search results · 202268.9M
  3. 3bge-small-en-v1.5Beijing Academy of AI · China · Powers search · 202351.4M
  4. 4paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2Sentence Transformers (open-source project) · Powers search · 202233.4M
  5. 5bge-m3Beijing Academy of AI · China · Powers search · 202430.2M
  6. 6bert-base-uncasedGoogle · US · Understands sentences · 202229.2M
  7. 7gpt2OpenAI · US · Writes and chats · 202225.8M
  8. 8t5-smallGoogle · US · Translates · 202224.2M
  9. 9Qwen3-0.6BAlibaba (Qwen) · China · Writes and chats · 202523.9M
  10. 10electra-base-discriminatorGoogle · US · Task not tagged · 202223.7M

Read from Hugging Face at 8:21 PM ET, Oct 30. Downloads are counted over the last 30 days.

Most liked

The all-time favorites.

The models with the most likes since each was posted: a rough record of what got developers excited. Each Hugging Face account can like a model once.

  1. 1Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba (Qwen) · China · Reads images and text · 2026 · Our page18,802
  2. 2FLUX.1-devBlack Forest Labs · Germany · Makes pictures · 202415,840
  3. 3DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek · China · Writes and chats · 202514,420
  4. 4Kimi-K3Moonshot AI · China · Reads images and text · 2026 · Test scores11,884
  5. 5LTX-2.5Lightricks · Israel · Turns pictures into video · 20269,964
  6. 6Llama-3.1-8B-InstructMeta · US · Writes and chats · 20248,699
  7. 7stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0Stability AI · UK · Makes pictures · 20238,414
  8. 8stable-diffusion-v1-4CompVis (LMU Munich) · Germany · Makes pictures · 20227,143
  9. 9Meta-Llama-3-8BMeta · US · Writes and chats · 20246,771
  10. 10whisper-large-v3OpenAI · US · Turns speech into text · 20236,714

Read from Hugging Face at 8:21 PM ET, Oct 30.

Smaller makers

Also trending, from makers we don't track yet.

Original models from smaller teams and individual developers, trending now. We haven't checked who these makers are or where they're based, so they're shown apart from the labs.

  1. 1flintRecursiveSI · Writes and chats · 2026371
  2. 2Spark-X2.6-4BXHToken · Writes and chats · 2026331
  3. 3idolsperidlabs · Turns pictures into 3D · 2026146
  4. 4drama-3fishaudio · Reads text aloud · 2026134
  5. 5Audio8-TTS-Realistic-0.6bEdge0 · Reads text aloud · 2026117
  6. 6Breeze-TTS-2BreezeBlue · Reads text aloud · 2026103

Ranked by Hugging Face's trending score. Read from Hugging Face at 8:21 PM ET, Oct 30.

How to read this

Popular isn't proven.

See what independent tests measured

Trending

Hugging Face's own ranking of what is drawing attention right now. We show its score as Hugging Face gives it, and each bar on the board is measured against the leader's.

Downloads and likes

Downloads count every fetch of a model's files over the last 30 days, including by software running on its own, so they show use inside apps as much as by people. Likes are all-time.

Licenses

“Open license” means terms like Apache 2.0 or MIT, which let anyone use, change and sell with the model. “Maker's own license” means the maker set its own terms, often with limits, so read them first.

What we leave out

Copies of another maker's model in a new file format, merges of other models, and models built to strip out safety limits, make sexual images or slip past AI detectors. A maker's own copies count once.

Popular isn't proven

Likes and downloads show what developers are trying, not whether a model is accurate or safe. Where independent testers have scored a model, its blue tag opens our page with the scores. Many of these models also run on a home computer.

Where this comes from

Hugging Face's public listing, read at most once an hour, and its Spring 2026 report for the yearly figures. Names and counts are Hugging Face's; the plain-English labels and each maker's country are ours.