Hugging Face cache is way more than a folder full of downloaded models 🤫
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Hugging Face cache is way more than a folder full of downloaded models 🤫 With huggingface_hub v1.32, identical Xet-backed files across repos are stored only once, so if 5 repos share the same 20 GB weights file: -> before: ~100 GB on disk -> after: ~20 GB And once the blob is local, another repo can reuse it with zero payload download 💃 Xet already made the remote storage content-addressed. Now that identity extends into your local cache too.
Posted by Victor M (30.7k followers) 1 days ago · 59 likes · 4.6k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the AI Radar as AI infra & evals.
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