China's Open-Source AI Platforms Seek to Rival Hugging Face After Block

After China blocked Hugging Face in 2023, domestic platforms ModelScope and MoArk emerged as alternatives, with ModelScope reporting 170,000 models and 250 million users as of March.

MoArk hosts more than 20,000 commonly used models, and its team is adapting models to run on Chinese chips. Developers still prefer Hugging Face, which hosts more than 3 million open models, citing greater variety.