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title: "Centralized storage wins for AI artifacts"
date: 2026-06-24
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Besides being hot, this take is very correct

and points out to a fundamental tradeoff in the storage layer being centralized versus distributed

git is distributed and that makes total sense for code which takes small space by its nature. it is cheap for everyone to duplicate it locally. this proved to be very useful over e.g svn, when devs could develop independently from the centralized server

AI artifacts, however, are 1 million times bigger than code. in that case, the bottleneck becomes storage and network. decentralization and version control become lower priority. they can be sacrificed

the tradeoff tilts towards getting the cheapest possible storage and transfer. because you will need a LOT of that

I regret to announce to competitors that Hugging Face has already won this game when they acquired Xet. the tech just works, and the network effects are immense

*Quotes a post by @ClementDelangue (https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2039695447506210905); its text is omitted here because it is not covered by this site's license.*