      Tomasz Tunguz Blog · 2024-01-15
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Open Source Model Adoption Patterns: License Dominance, Creator Competition, and Download Trends

Analysis of 300 top open source models on HuggingFace reveals that Apache and MIT licenses dominate (92% of downloads), while Meta, OpenAI, and Google lead in downloads despite Facebook and Stability having more models by count. Speech recognition and Fill-Mask models drive the most downloads, with popularity metrics showing minimal correlation to actual usage.

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Metrics in this report

Apache vs MIT License Popularity Ratio

2ratio

median

by model count

Apache+MIT License Market Share by Count

76%

proportion

top 300 open source models

Apache+MIT License Market Share by Downloads

92%

proportion

models downloaded last month

Likes vs Downloads Correlation

0.06R²

correlation coefficient

HuggingFace model popularity metrics

Meta Download Share

30%

proportion

total open source model downloads