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# Google's share of top Hugging Face downloads fell from 42% in 2020 to under 1%
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/hugging-face-downloads-google-openai/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:31:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:28.000Z
- Description: Google's models made up 42% of downloads of the top Hugging Face models in 2020. By 2025 their share was 0.3%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, Open Source AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models

42% → 0.3%

▼ 41.8 pts since Q2 2020

Google's share of top Hugging Face model downloads, Q2 2020 vs Q3 2025

Q2 2020Q3 2025

## What the chart shows

In the second quarter of 2020, Google’s models accounted for 42% of downloads of the most popular Hugging Face models. The share fell steadily through 2022 and has been below 2% since the second quarter of 2023 (0.3% in Q3 2025).

OpenAI’s share peaked at 19% at the end of 2022 and was about 1% in 2025\. The timm image-model library briefly reached 12% in late 2023.

## Key numbers

| Measure                | Value |
| ---------------------- | ----- |
| Google, Q2 2020        | 42.1% |
| Google, Q3 2025        | 0.3%  |
| OpenAI, Q4 2022 (peak) | 19%   |
| OpenAI, Q3 2025        | 1.1%  |
| timm, Q4 2023 (peak)   | 12%   |

## How to read it

- The AI Index’s public data covers only these three developers; the printed report chart shows more.
- Covers the 200 most-downloaded models each week (Longpre et al., 2025). Shares are of those downloads, not all Hugging Face downloads.

**Source:** [Longpre et al.](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#longpre-2025-open-intelligence), 2025; [Hugging Face](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#hugging-face), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.8: *Download share by developer 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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