{"slug": "stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab", "title": "Stuck when trying to download any model to use in Colab", "summary": "A user reports being unable to download models from Hugging Face in Google Colab, with downloads stuck at 1% despite trying workarounds like disabling HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET. The issue affects both embedding models and large language models.", "body_md": "Hello,\n\nToday, when I tried to download a model from Hugging Face to use in Google Colab, it kept getting stuck at 1%. I don’t know why that’s happening. I’ve tried everything, such as disabling it (HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET = 1), but it didn’t work.\n\nNot only stuck when downloading the embedding model, but also the LLM\n\nPlease help. Thank you.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab/177815#post_1", "published_at": "2026-07-14 15:14:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-14 15:31:49.158822+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "Google Colab"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stuck-when-trying-to-download-any-model-to-use-in-colab.jsonld"}}