On September 16, the world's largest AI open-source community, Hugging Face, updated its ranking of the most popular (Most Likes) open-source large models. Qwen3.8-27B from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab surpassed a series of well-known models such as FLUX.1, DeepSeek-R1, Kimi-K3, and Meta-Llama-3, becoming the most popular open-source model in the history of Hugging Face.
The significance of this top position lies in its evaluation criteria — not benchmark scores or parameter size, but the genuine preferences of developers reflected through "likes." Being highlighted alongside FLUX.1, a benchmark for image generation; DeepSeek-R1, a star in reasoning; and Kimi-K3 and Meta-Llama-3, long-standing strong competitors, indicates that Qwen3.8-27B has surpassed all previous open-source models in terms of practicality, ease of use, and community reputation.
