Interconnects Adds Local Models to Download Tracking After Reporting a Decline

Nathan Lambert said Interconnects updated its model-download tracking pipeline to include local models in formats such as GGUF, AWQ, and ONNX, fixing a gap in the methodology behind its earlier report of declining Hugging Face downloads. He said downloads of those previously excluded models are now surging. Lambert had reported a continuing decline among the top open LLMs Interconnects tracked, with many showing roughly a 30% drop in download rate. He initially suggested a change in download counting might explain the drop. His later explanation identified the exclusion of local models, which he said had previously been harder to track and accounted for a much smaller share of downloads.

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1. 10/14 02:21 (UTC+8) · 1 reports
   Nathan Lambert Updates Pipeline to Track Local Models
   Nathan Lambert · X：Local Model Downloads Surge as Interconnects Updates Its Tracking Pipeline
2. 10/11 00:13 (UTC+8) · 1 reports
   Nathan Lambert Reports a Decline in Downloads of Top Open LLMs
   Nathan Lambert · X：We've been monitoring a decline in HuggingFace downloads across the top open LLMs we track for interconnects. It looks like there was a slight change in counting of downloads, as we saw a ~30% download rate drop for many top models, but this is continuing over time. What else do people think it may be?