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how much of the world’s AI attention goes to Qwen — tracked daily across 85 countries.
Qwen (Alibaba) holds 1.1% of global AI-tool search interest this week — rank 10 of 26 tools tracked, up 0.1pp over the last 30 days. It is not yet a top-2 choice in any of the 85 tracked countries. Its strongest market is Russia, where it takes 8.4% of AI-tool searches. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
updated 2026-07-21 · refreshed daily
01 · the trend
weekly, 2025-07-13 → 2026-07-19. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
headlines from official sources, last 60 days; chips show how search share and attention moved in the 7 days after each — correlation, not causation. the full feed is the wire.
02 · momentum
share moves from daily snapshots. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts — snapshot history accumulates from Jul 7, 2026.
03 · where it’s strongest
share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
| # | country | share of AI searches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇷🇺 Russia | 8.4% |
| 2 | 🇨🇳 China | 3.4% |
| 3 | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 2.1% |
| 4 | 🇯🇵 Japan | 1.1% |
| 5 | 🇮🇷 Iran | 1.0% |
| 6 | 🇵🇱 Poland | 1.0% |
| 7 | 🇸🇬 Singapore | 1.0% |
| 8 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 0.9% |
| 9 | 🇮🇶 Iraq | 0.8% |
| 10 | 🇮🇱 Israel | 0.8% |
share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts. country links open that country’s full AI-preference page. updated 2026-07-21.
04 · attention
daily Wikipedia pageviews for “Qwen” — a full year of public curiosity. source: Wikimedia Pageviews API.
05 · developer signal
downloads include CI machines and mirrors — momentum, not headcount.
full developer picture — npm, PyPI, GitHub, Hugging Face — on the developer signal page.
faq
Russia shows the strongest Qwen preference of the 85 countries tracked: 8.4% of its AI-tool search interest goes to Qwen, versus 1.1% globally. Next come China (3.4%) and South Korea (2.1%). This measures share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
Not globally: ChatGPT holds 68.0% of AI-tool search interest this week versus Qwen's 1.1%. There is no tracked country where Qwen out-searches ChatGPT right now.
1.1% this week — rank 10 of the 26 AI tools tracked. Over the last 30 days its global share moved +0.1pp. Shares are anchor-normalized Google search interest, so the 26 tools sum to roughly 100% per country.
Roughly flat: +0.1pp over the last 30 days, holding 1.1% of AI-tool searches. The tracker refreshes daily, so this answer updates with the data.
compare Qwen against all 26 tools on the race chart, or head back to the tracker hub.
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