🤗 huggingface_hub journey

2020-2021

Foundation

  • First release
  • Git wrapper
  • Token auth
2022

Git to HTTP

  • HTTP Commit API
  • Git-aware cache
  • Spaces
2023-2024

API Expansion

  • Inference API
  • Community features
  • Collections
2025

Xet Protocol

  • Chunk storage
  • 77PB+ migrated
  • Faster transfers