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GitHub have a soft repository size limit of 5GB, documented here: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/m...

Soft size limit means "If your repository excessively impacts our infrastructure, you might receive an email from GitHub Support asking you to take corrective action." - I know people who have received such emails.

Most model releases happen through Hugging Face which does not have such a size limit.



They'd probably just charge you for it. They sell "data packs" for LFS.

https://docs.github.com/billing/managing-billing-for-git-lar...


It would be super expensive to use LFS to distribute this:

> Each pack costs $5 per month, and provides 50 GiB of bandwidth and 50 GiB for storage

So they would need to pay for 6 data packs (or $30) for every 300gb download.

(https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-git-...)


I'd bet Hugging Face would be happy to have hosted these canonically too, so not sure why that doesn't happen more.


The model is also at https://huggingface.co/xai-org




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