ATOM Report highlights the sheer dominance of Chinese labs in the Open-Source LLM space
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Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand has published a comprehensive analysis of open model adoption from No 2023 to Mar 2026 tracking around 1.5K models across Hugging Face downloads, OpenRouter data and other benchmarks. One of the biggest takeaways for me is the sheer dominance and scale of contributions from Chinese labs (especially Qwen) to the open-source ecosystem. To be honest, their initiative in open-sourcing models like Qwen and DeepSeek has also encouraged similar efforts from other labs across Europe and the US.