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TECHNOLOGY · SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 The Most-Downloaded AI Models in the World Are Alibaba's On 18 September Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash — one model that takes text, images, audio and video, holds a million tokens of context, and decides for itself which parts of a two-hour video are worth watching. The release is the news, but the program behind it is the story: Qwen passed three billion downloads this summer, more than Google's and Meta's open models combined. Here is what "omnimodal" actually means, what the 26 percent is measuring, and why a company most people know for e-commerce is a serious AI lab.