{"slug": "modelscope", "name": "ModelScope", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 4.258, "rising": 1.35, "first": "2026-02-20", "latest": "2026-09-11", "why": "you can use the Chinese version of huggingface with all Chinese models", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "you can use the Chinese version of huggingface with all Chinese models", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "modelscope.cn", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://modelscope.cn", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["ModelScope"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 791379537, "item_id": 49461221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461221", "by": "walrus01", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For a CN domestic equivalent take a look at Modelscope.", "excerpt": "> Forgive me for newb question, but why Hugging Face is a thing at all? Because you can't host arbitrarily large files on github, it's basically become a defacto \"publish your project here\" thing. For a CN domestic equivalent take a look at Modelscope.", "context": "", "use_case": "Chinese model hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"}, {"id": 791343968, "item_id": 49458998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458998", "by": "dannyw", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "which is worth checking out", "excerpt": "NVIDIA is one of the most open labs. They even share many of their pre-training and even post-training datasets for Nemotron on HuggingFace; for example: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Post-Training-Dataset-v2 Which other lab shares this? Yes, there is no question NVIDIA wants to lock you into CUDA and their hardware. 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Instead you can use the Chinese version of huggingface with all Chinese models - https://www.modelscope.ai/models", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting AI models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"}, {"id": 784375808, "item_id": 49023488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023488", "by": "commoner", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China:", "excerpt": "Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China: - https://modelscope.ai - Source code (ironically on GitHub): https://github.com/modelscope/modelscope It's not limited to Alibaba's Qwen. All of the other major Chinese ones are on there (GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, etc.) as well as finetunes and quantizations of the non-Chinese ones.", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting and finding AI models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["hosting ai models", "accessing open models", "chinese model hosting", "hosting and finding ai models"], "compared": [{"slug": "hugging-face", "name": "Hugging Face", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161", "title": "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016", "title": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225", "title": "Claude is only available to people over 18 years", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088037", "title": "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"compare": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 794517234, "item_id": 49657327, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657327", "by": "andy99", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Going to have to sign up for modelscope", "excerpt": "Erlich Bachman: Jian-Yang, what're you doing? This is Palo Alto. People are lunatics about smoking here. We don't enjoy all the freedoms that you have in China. Anyway, when the talk of age verification first came out, I moved off of Claude and use either local or Chinese frontier models via open router (which probably isn\u2019t safe for long now that they\u2019ve been acquired). I\u2019d almost forgotten why, this is a good remin", "context": "", "use_case": "accessing open models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"}, {"id": 791379537, "item_id": 49461221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461221", "by": "walrus01", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For a CN domestic equivalent take a look at Modelscope.", "excerpt": "> Forgive me for newb question, but why Hugging Face is a thing at all? Because you can't host arbitrarily large files on github, it's basically become a defacto \"publish your project here\" thing. For a CN domestic equivalent take a look at Modelscope.", "context": "", "use_case": "Chinese model hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"}, {"id": 791343968, "item_id": 49458998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458998", "by": "dannyw", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "which is worth checking out", "excerpt": "NVIDIA is one of the most open labs. They even share many of their pre-training and even post-training datasets for Nemotron on HuggingFace; for example: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Post-Training-Dataset-v2 Which other lab shares this? Yes, there is no question NVIDIA wants to lock you into CUDA and their hardware. 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Instead you can use the Chinese version of huggingface with all Chinese models - https://www.modelscope.ai/models", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting AI models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"}, {"id": 784375808, "item_id": 49023488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023488", "by": "commoner", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China:", "excerpt": "Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China: - https://modelscope.ai - Source code (ironically on GitHub): https://github.com/modelscope/modelscope It's not limited to Alibaba's Qwen. All of the other major Chinese ones are on there (GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, etc.) as well as finetunes and quantizations of the non-Chinese ones.", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting and finding AI models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"}, {"id": 753422817, "item_id": 47088926, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088926", "by": "woadwarrior01", "date": "2026-02-20", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "The Chinese equivalent of HF is ModelScope", "excerpt": "HF is indeed banned in China. The Chinese equivalent of HF is ModelScope[1]. [1]: https://modelscope.cn/", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting AI models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"}]}