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title: "Open model brands outlive their owners"
date: 2026-06-22
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2068951676128461079/
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license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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if you take the Most Downloaded Models of All Time, Llama 3.1 makes it to Top 10 with around 200 million total downloads (ranking is done w.r. to time-averaged downloads)

RIP Llama, you walked so @googlegemma and @Alibaba_Qwen can run

Also a reminder that if you build your branding on top of open weight models developed by big corps, you might eventually be the de facto owner of that brand if they pull the plug on it. Like llama.cpp @ggml_org

Huge fumble by Meta