New report with Florian Brand is out with the latest open model adoption data we have gathered for Interconnects & The ATOM Project. At the surface level, we can see Chinese models continuing to accelerate in adoption. The report details much more.

- We manually curate ~1.5K of the most important language models, creating a specific set of models to focus our analysis on (excludes embedding models, local inference models like MLX/GGUF, etc to have accurate download rankings).

- Studying other adoption metrics, such as derivative models and inference share on OpenRouter, to show how they correlate with downloads, while often sifted in time. China has a strong lead here too.

- Better classification of downloads across model sizes. Large models still are the models where Qwen is least competitive, relative to other model builders.

- Expansion of our Relative Adoption Metric (RAM) to show standout recent models (we'll check Gemma 4 on Friday); Qwen 3.5, Nemontron 3, Kimi K2.5, all showing very strong adoption.

Overall, this is another step towards formalizing and making public better data on the open language model ecosystem, so the community can better understand the impact and trends of its adoption. More on this soon!