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XetHub is joining Hugging Face!
We are super excited to officially announce that Hugging Face acquired XetHub 🔥
XetHub is a Seattle-based company founded by Yucheng Low, Ajit Banerjee, Rajat Arya who previously worked at Apple where they built and scaled Apple’s internal ML infrastructure. XetHub’s mission is to enable software engineering best practices for AI development. XetHub has developed technologies to enable Git to scale to TB repositories and enable teams to explore, understand and work together on large evolving datasets and models. They were soon joined by a talented team of 12 team members. You should give them a follow at their new org page: hf.co/xet-team
Our common goal at HF
The XetHub team will help us unlock the next 5 years of growth of HF datasets and models by switching to our own, better version of LFS as storage backend for the Hub's repos.
– Julien Chaumond, HF CTO
Back in 2020 when we built the first version of the HF Hub, we decided to build it on top of Git LFS because it was decently well-known and it was a reasonable choice to bootstrap the Hub’s usage.
We knew back then, however, that we would want to switch to our own, more optimized storage and versioning backend at some point. Git LFS – even though it stands for Large File storage – was just never meant for the type of large files we handle in AI, which are not just large, but very very large 😃#XetHub
We are super excited to officially announce that Hugging Face acquired XetHub 🔥
XetHub is a Seattle-based company founded by Yucheng Low, Ajit Banerjee, Rajat Arya who previously worked at Apple where they built and scaled Apple’s internal ML infrastructure. XetHub’s mission is to enable software engineering best practices for AI development. XetHub has developed technologies to enable Git to scale to TB repositories and enable teams to explore, understand and work together on large evolving datasets and models. They were soon joined by a talented team of 12 team members. You should give them a follow at their new org page: hf.co/xet-team
Our common goal at HF
The XetHub team will help us unlock the next 5 years of growth of HF datasets and models by switching to our own, better version of LFS as storage backend for the Hub's repos.
– Julien Chaumond, HF CTO
Back in 2020 when we built the first version of the HF Hub, we decided to build it on top of Git LFS because it was decently well-known and it was a reasonable choice to bootstrap the Hub’s usage.
We knew back then, however, that we would want to switch to our own, more optimized storage and versioning backend at some point. Git LFS – even though it stands for Large File storage – was just never meant for the type of large files we handle in AI, which are not just large, but very very large 😃#XetHub
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xet-team (Xet Team)
Org profile for Xet Team on Hugging Face, the AI community building the future.