Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are competing to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face, serving Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall. ModelScope currently hosts over 170,000 open models, significantly more than MoArk's approximately 20,000 models. Both platforms aim to provide AI model hosting and services within China, mirroring the functionalities offered by Hugging Face internationally.