The hottest AI models aren’t the ones developers actually use

Software developers aren't buying the hype around frontier models. Nitat Termmee/Getty Images New Hugging Face data shows a gap between the AI models developers talk about and those they use. Smaller models dominate downloads even though they get little hype online. The company compared the most-downloaded models with the most-liked models on its platform. The AI models getting the most attention aren't the ones developers are actually using, according to new data from Hugging Face. Hugging…