Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet
In January of this year, Hugging Face’s Xet Team deployed a new storage backend, and shortly after shifted ~6% of Hub downloads through the infrastructure. This represented a significant milestone, but it was just the beginning. In 6 months, 500,000 repositories holding 20 PB joined the move to Xet as the Hub outgrows Git LFS and transitions to a storage system that scales with the workloads of AI builders.
Today, more than 1 million people on the Hub are using Xet. In May, it became the default on the Hub for new users and organizations. With