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title: "gemma-4-26b-a4b is the most CIRCULATED LLM of recent history, with an average of 126k downloads..."
date: 2026-06-20
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2068272936587493526/
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license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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gemma-4-26b-a4b is the most CIRCULATED LLM of recent history, with an average of 126k downloads per day, since the day it was released 3 months ago

Top 10 is shared by Qwen and Gemma, with DeepSeek V4 Pro coming in close 🤝

Note that a model's distribution is inversely proportional to its size, but not strictly! Usefulness plays a factor as well, since gemma 4 26b-a4b is being downloaded more than the smaller gemma 4 e4b

I created this leaderboard because Hugging Face's all time highest downloads and likes did not give me enough information about what is really popular *these last few months*

How do I calculate this ranking?

- Get models that with n_downloads >= 100k
- Exclude models older than 1 year
- Sort by descending total_downloads / age = average_downloads_per_day (can also sort w.r. to likes per month)
- Deduplicate quantizations etc. of the same model based on slug prefix heuristics

More info and source on the leaderboard page, hosted on a Hugging Face space: https://osolmaz-leaderboard.hf.space/