Hugging Face acquires XetHub to optimize AI model storage

AI Impact Summary

Hugging Face is acquiring XetHub, a company specializing in scaling Git file storage for large AI datasets and models. This acquisition is driven by a need to optimize the Hugging Face Hub's storage backend, currently using Git LFS, which is not ideal for the rapidly growing size and complexity of AI models. The integration of XetHub’s technology will enable improved collaboration, reproducibility, and understanding of evolving datasets and models within the Hugging Face community.