Nearly half of the new models developed by Korean developers are based on Chinese foundations, with Alibaba's Qwen accounting for 46.8%.

From January to August 2026, Korean developers published 1845 models on Hugging Face, of which 49.3% were based on Chinese models. Ali Qwen ranked first with a share of 46.8%, surpassing US models (35.9%) and domestic Korean models (14.9%).