The State of Open Models, Summer 2026 ☀️ frontier models are getting larger, but small models still dominate real-world usage. Qwen leads local inference, followed by Gemma. AI agents are becoming a major force on the Hub
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- Qwen 3.8 27b is being released at 11:00AM EST on Wednesday Folks are lined up for miles to see what this fancy new model is capable of
- We're working with the Open Secure Alliance on guidelines for incident learning, to collectively develop better review, disclosure, and controls of and for security incidents.
- Pro tip: add in a "Sign-In with Hugging Face" OAuth button to your website/app so that community members can easily share their email, create model/dataset repos, store data in Buckets, or even kick off GPU-backed Jobs! huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/oa…
