Hugging Face Now Hosts Common Crawl

lhoestq · x · 2026-07-17

Shared updates note that Common Crawl, acting as the "petabytes-level shared infrastructure of the internet," is vital for open AI training.

Now that Hugging Face hosts it, users no longer need AWS credentials to access the data. This removes the need to maintain an extra secret and makes utilizing the data much more convenient.

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