16.6%
▼ 56.5 pts since 2020
share of top Hugging Face downloads from US developers, 2025; China 16.9%
20202025
What the chart shows
In 2020, models from US-based developers accounted for 73.1% of downloads of the most popular Hugging Face models. By 2025 their share was 16.6%, slightly below China’s 16.9%, up from 0.8% in 2020.
The largest share in 2025 came from models uploaded by unaffiliated users (32.6%), individuals rather than companies or labs. International or online-only organisations took 23.4%.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| United States, 2020 | 73.1% |
| United States, 2025 | 16.6% |
| China, 2025 | 16.9% |
| Unaffiliated users, 2025 | 32.6% |
| International/online, 2025 | 23.4% |
How to read it
- Covers the 200 most-downloaded models each week from March 2020 to August 2025, about half of all filtered downloads (Longpre et al., 2025).
- Other countries combines the UK, Germany, France, India and the remaining countries.
- 2020 starts in Q2 and 2025 ends in Q3.
- In the source data, shares for 2020–2024 add up to 96–99.6% rather than 100%, so those bars stop short of the top.
Source: Longpre et al., 2025; Hugging Face, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.7: Global distribution of downloads among top Hugging Face models, Q2 2020–Q3 2025. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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