269 Developer AI Model Activity = +33x Increase in AI Models on Hugging Face – 11/24 vs. 3/22 AI Models Available from Hugging Face – 3/22-11/24, per Hugging Face Note: Hugging Face is an online platform that hosts and shares machine learning models, datasets, and tools – commonly used to access, test, and deploy AI models, including large language models. It has become a central hub for the open-source AI community. May include open-source and closed models. Source: Hugging Face (5/25), Meta (3/25) Number of AI Models Rising Performance of Open-Source Models + Falling Token Costs = Explosion of Usage by Developers Using AI ~35K 1.16MM +33x 3/25: 100k derivative models built off Meta Llama alone