First demo of a XetHub-backed roundtrip to/from Hugging Face servers = first steps to a faster, more scalable HF Hub! ⚡️🤗

It's the end of an era. We just shut down our XetHub servers after 658 days in production. 🪦 What did we learn? xethub.com/blog/shutting-…

Deduplicating evolving datasets is a no-brainer - store differences instead of full versions of each one. But format matters! Here's how appends, modifications, and deletes on Apache Parquet files (~20% of what's stored on Hugging Face Hub) deduplicate. 🧵

Welcome, Gradio 5 👋 We’ve been hard at work over the past few months, and we are excited to announce today the stable release of Gradio 5! With more than 2 million users every month (and >470,000 apps on Hugging Face Spaces), Gradio has become the default way to build,

Did you know that @Huggingface Hub holds over 29 PB of Git LFS files across datasets, models, and spaces? 📈 That's the equivalent of 64 Common Crawl Foundation downloads - and it's growing every day. So what's inside? 🧵

Sweet visualization of S3 PUT requests to @HuggingFace Hub over a 24-hour period, showing upload density across the globe. 🌏

We're turning Hugging Face Hub's files into content-defined chunks to speed up your workflows!⚡️ This means: - 🧠We store your file as deduplicated chunks - ⏩ You only upload changed chunks when iterating! - 🚀 Pulling changes? Only download changed chunks!