Friday, August 1, 2025

Hugging Face - Upgrade to Xet

I received an informational email on - Hugging face upgrading the Hub's storage backend from Git LFS to Xet. It stated that "Xet is our chunk-based backend that already powers 50% of all Hub downloads and serves the Llama, Qwen, Gemma, and Phi model families."

Xet Documentation link:  https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/storage-backends#using-xet-storage

Command given:

pip install -U huggingface_hub

Output:



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Hugging Face - Upgrade to Xet

I received an informational email on - Hugging face upgrading the Hub's storage backend from Git LFS to Xet. It stated that "Xet is...