HuggingFace just published their biannual State of Open Models report covering January to August 2026. The headline numbers are big — 2. 96 million public model repos, 1 million datasets, 1.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/thegatewayguy/whos-really-winning-open-models-in-2026-its-not-who-you-think-c11)