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., 2025; 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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Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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