Xet is on the Hub

Hugging Face's Xet Team migrated the first Model and Dataset repositories from LFS to Xet storage, using content-defined chunking to improve upload/download efficiency. The migration shifted ~6% of the Hub's download traffic onto Xet infrastructure, and the post details the technical components and post-migration challenges.

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Over the past few weeks, Hugging Face’s Xet Team took a major step forward by migrating the first Model and Dataset repositories off LFS and to Xet storage.
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Announced: 18 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
Detected: 03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+503d after)

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