HuggingFace is the leading platform where the world’s open-source models are launched. Chinese and American open-source AI models are compared to each other directly in terms of total downloads and usage. 

Tiezhen Wang, who just left Hugging Face this month after being the head of its APAC ecosystem for 3.5 years, has worked first hand with Chinese AI labs in their model releases, and watched how a global developer community is growing because of more models being open-sourced.