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8 plots that explain the state of open models

Measuring the impact of Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama, GPT-OSS, Nemotron, and all of the new entrants to the ecosystem.

Nathan Lambert
Jan 07, 2026
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This post originally appeared in Interconnects.

“If we look at the top 5 Qwen models released in December alone, they have more downloads than all of the models we’re tracking from OpenAI, Mistral, Nv…

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