safetensors

The article clarifies the parameter count of the Deepseek V4.1 Flash AI model, detailing its components like FFN experts and vision encoder, and highlights the substantial hardware requirements for deployment.

A deliberately empty 16.5-trillion-parameter model uploaded to Hugging Face exposes that parameter counts are computed from safetensors headers alone, and that Xet's content-defined deduplication reduces upload bandwidth enormously while storage quota still bills the full logical size.

A thread highlighting a technical blog series on how Hugging Face's transformers library loads models efficiently, covering meta device, safetensors, CUDA caching, and more.

tftf is a lightweight, streaming pipeline for manipulating HuggingFace safetensors models, enabling FP8 dequantisation, LoRA merging, and other operations without loading the full model into memory, minimizing RAM and VRAM overhead.

Comfy-Org has repackaged Boogu-Image model files for ComfyUI, including base, edit, and turbo variants with different quantization formats, plus a LoRA and text encoder.

safetensors 0.8.0 release brings major performance improvements: direct copy into Metal MTLBuffers with dlpack for 2-3x faster loading and OOM fix on macOS, plus GIL-free serialization for faster multi-file saves.

A fine-tuned uncensored version of the Qwen model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) with MTP support and APEX quantization, tested stable at 200k context and recommended for use in LM Studio.

Hugging Face flagged a safetensors file as unsafe, confusing users who question the policy.

The MiniMax M2.7 model has been fine-tuned into an uncensored variant, 'ultra uncensored heretic', with very low refusal rates (4/100). Available in Safetensors and GGUF formats on HuggingFace.

Community release of Qwen3.6 35B A3B uncensored variant with full 19 MTP tensors preserved, available in multiple formats including Safetensors, GGUF, NVFP4 and GPTQ-Int4.

Safetensors has officially joined the PyTorch Foundation under the Linux Foundation to establish a vendor-neutral governance structure, while maintaining its status as the default model format for the Hugging Face Hub.