# Hugging Face — Xet is on the Hub

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/xet-on-the-hub
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1731-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/xet-on-the-hub:

> 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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