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We are expanding our open-models coverage into standalone projects that let you go deeper on the state of the open model ecosystem, introducing two free data sources: the Artifacts Hub and our Adoption Dashboard.
Interconnects announces two new free data sources — the Artifacts Hub (a curated view of trending Hugging Face models) and a daily-updating Adoption Dashboard (downloads by geography and organization highlighting the US-China gap). ✦ AI generated
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We're expanding our open models coverage into standalone projects that let you go deeper on the state of the open model ecosystem. The new free sources of data are: The Artifacts Hub — a curated view of the models trending on Hugging Face, highlighting inference tokens via Open Router, model intelligence via Artificial Analysis, and our tailored adoption metrics building on top of Hugging Face's data. Our Adoption Dashboard — a living dashboard of download and derivative model numbers by geography and organization. This highlights the US-China gap and growing players in the open ecosystem.
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- ·Expanding open-models coverage into standalone projects
- ·Introducing two free data sources for deeper insights
- ·Artifacts Hub: curated view of trending HF models
- ·Adoption Dashboard: living dashboard of downloads
- ·Artifacts Hub highlights inference tokens via Open Router
- ·Adds model intelligence via Artificial Analysis
- ·Adoption Dashboard tracks downloads and derivatives
- ·Covers geography and organization; shows US-China gap
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Since writing The ATOM Project, Interconnects has repeatedly seen the US-vs-China model adoption plot in the AI ecosystem, so they are now making the crucial data available in a daily updating dashboard.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects · conf 80%Providing transparency on what is happening with open models is the best way for Interconnects to figure out what is working and to enable the open ecosystem to use open models productively in cost-competitive ways.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects · conf 75%
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Interconnects is expanding its primary efforts on Interconnects — release recaps for popular models and the monthly Artifacts Log round-up — by building on the tools and internal data collected for projects like The ATOM Project, capturing an ecosystem view of open models and understanding adoption of giant MoE models.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects · conf 80%The open model ecosystem has professionalized significantly — model weights now ship with vLLM patches and partner integrations, unlike a year ago when the community had to figure everything out from scratch.Florian Brand · Interconnects · conf 70%A safer bet than consolidation is predicting continued adoption of open models, and the ecosystem is entering a decisive era over how far open models can go.The author of 'Latest open artifacts (#23)...' · Interconnects · conf 65%
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For the most popular models, the Artifacts Hub allows users to quickly compare frontier intelligence, adoption, and related generations through metrics like the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and relative adoption metric (RAM) scores.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects · conf 85%The Artifacts Hub covers 792 models released in the last two years and lets users go deeper on analysis in collaboration with Project VAIL.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects · conf 85%