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Hugging Face acquires XetHub from ex-Apple researchers for large AI model hosting
The HF team plans to integrate XetHub and upgrade its storage backend, enabling developers to host more large models and datasets.
Hugging Face today announced it has acquired Seattle-based XetHub, a collaborative development platform founded by former Apple researchers to help machine learning teams work more efficiently with large datasets and models. “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 a storage backend for the Hub’s repos,” Julien Chaumond, the CTO of the company, wrote in a blog post. During these three years, XetHub drew a sizeable customer base, including major names like Tableau and Gather AI, with its ability to handle complex scalability needs stemming from constantly growing tools, files and artifacts.
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