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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T07:57:22.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Any model i try to download ( let’s say gpt-oss-20b) actually downloads a looot of files and large sized files but the model itself is probably only 20GB and end up with 50+GB\n\n> hf download openai/gpt-oss-20b\n>  Downloading ‘.gitattributes’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/52373fe24473b1aa44333d318f578ae6bf04b49b.incomplete’\n>  .gitattributes: 1.57kB [00:00, 3.02MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/52373fe24473b1aa44333d318f578ae6bf04b49b\n>  Downloading ‘LICENSE’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/7a4a3ea2424c09fbe48d455aed1eaa94d9124835.incomplete’\n>  LICENSE: 11.4kB [00:00, 17.0MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/7a4a3ea2424c09fbe48d455aed1eaa94d9124835\n>  Downloading ‘README.md’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/f6e25105129ce88f068afff463e0db36024e9ae8.incomplete’\n>  README.md: 7.09kB [00:00, 13.5MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/f6e25105129ce88f068afff463e0db36024e9ae8\n>  Downloading ‘USAGE_POLICY’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/b030f63aecc61cbaf2316a7b6401254f4312df74.incomplete’\n>  USAGE_POLICY: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 200/200 [00:00<00:00, 781kB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/b030f63aecc61cbaf2316a7b6401254f4312df74\n>  Downloading ‘chat_template.jinja’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/dc7bb11927d29f653ba2740f2db2c688fd77592f.incomplete’\n>  chat_template.jinja: 16.7kB [00:00, 20.1MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/dc7bb11927d29f653ba2740f2db2c688fd77592f\n>  Downloading ‘config.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/8fb5a4a03376ab5a12afd94b4ed93da61edf5b1c.incomplete’\n>  config.json: 1.81kB [00:00, 4.53MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/8fb5a4a03376ab5a12afd94b4ed93da61edf5b1c\n>  Downloading ‘generation_config.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/86f91466555bd40e3de0b1edee3d5d82f4ccdbfe.incomplete’\n>  generation_config.json: 100%|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 177/177 [00:00<00:00, 569kB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/86f91466555bd40e3de0b1edee3d5d82f4ccdbfe\n>  Downloading ‘metal/model.bin’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/725b7f996b5a226d922f034a731aefc398652f670dcafc2efd78620509a0fef1.incomplete’\n>  metal/model.bin: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 13.8G/13.8G [05:51<00:00, 39.1MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/725b7f996b5a226d922f034a731aefc398652f670dcafc2efd78620509a0fef1\n>  Downloading ‘model-00000-of-00002.safetensors’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/16d0f997dcfc4462089d536bffe51b4bcea2f872f5c430be09ef8ed392312427.incomplete’\n>  model-00000-of-00002.safetensors: 100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4.79G/4.79G [01:31<00:00, 52.4MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/16d0f997dcfc4462089d536bffe51b4bcea2f872f5c430be09ef8ed392312427\n>  Downloading ‘model-00001-of-00002.safetensors’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/4fbe328ab445455d6f58dc73852b85873bd626986310abd91cd4d2ce3245eaea.incomplete’\n>  model-00001-of-00002.safetensors: 100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4.80G/4.80G [02:14<00:00, 35.6MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/4fbe328ab445455d6f58dc73852b85873bd626986310abd91cd4d2ce3245eaea\n>  Downloading ‘model-00002-of-00002.safetensors’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/a18106b209e9ab35c3406db4f6f12a927364a058b21e9d1373d682e20674b303.incomplete’\n>  model-00002-of-00002.safetensors: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4.17G/4.17G [00:35<00:00, 117MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/a18106b209e9ab35c3406db4f6f12a927364a058b21e9d1373d682e20674b303\n>  Downloading ‘model.safetensors.index.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/ae08521471ab125be4af84d0e51ecfc245830119.incomplete’\n>  model.safetensors.index.json: 36.4kB [00:00, 50.2MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/ae08521471ab125be4af84d0e51ecfc245830119\n>  Downloading ‘original/config.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/bd6a33e55b68b6734c932c44bd98f376d492dad9.incomplete’\n>  config.json: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 376/376 [00:00<00:00, 1.40MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/bd6a33e55b68b6734c932c44bd98f376d492dad9\n>  Downloading ‘original/dtypes.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/07e91493fc3ebf901d7d18b1309795b3f5e466aa.incomplete’\n>  dtypes.json: 13.1kB [00:00, 27.9MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/07e91493fc3ebf901d7d18b1309795b3f5e466aa\n>  Downloading ‘original/model.safetensors’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/3340a61d1a0391e8c5b5d3463d18d4c48129a84bbc04a554c762c99020aa06ed.incomplete’\n>  original/model.safetensors: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 13.8G/13.8G [04:08<00:00, 55.4MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/3340a61d1a0391e8c5b5d3463d18d4c48129a84bbc04a554c762c99020aa06ed\n>  Downloading ‘special_tokens_map.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/73bd12e55e2004cdfff088f85092b39dba2ccdd0.incomplete’\n>  special_tokens_map.json: 100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 98.0/98.0 [00:00<00:00, 345kB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/73bd12e55e2004cdfff088f85092b39dba2ccdd0\n>  Downloading ‘tokenizer.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/0614fe83cadab421296e664e1f48f4261fa8fef6e03e63bb75c20f38e37d07d3.incomplete’\n>  tokenizer.json: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 27.9M/27.9M [00:00<00:00, 46.8MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/0614fe83cadab421296e664e1f48f4261fa8fef6e03e63bb75c20f38e37d07d3\n>  Downloading ‘tokenizer_config.json’ to ‘/workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/c021cddb0a9dd35b1bf83a9f145be2d9b3757891.incomplete’\n>  tokenizer_config.json: 4.20kB [00:00, 9.87MB/s]\n>  Download complete. Moving file to /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/blobs/c021cddb0a9dd35b1bf83a9f145be2d9b3757891\n>  /workspace/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–openai–gpt-oss-20b/snapshots/6cee5e81ee83917806bbde320786a8fb61efebee",
  "title": "What are all the files that are being downloaded?"
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