How did Hugging Face Carbon-X do on X?
Hugging Face posted the Carbon-X launch from @LoubnaBenAllal1 on Oct 22, 2026. The post has 106,454 views, 657 likes, 116 reposts, 69 quotes and 49 replies, an engagement rate of 0.84%. It ranks #1701 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Carbon-X: The best open DNA model. We midtrained a 14B model on DNA and text, and it beats every open language model and matches GPT-6.1 Sol at 1,000x lower cost. Ask it about a sequence, what a mutation does, or to generate new DNA. https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X
- 61%the median launch175K median views
- #1701of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 12xits own following9,223 followers
- Views
- 106.5K
- Likes
- 657
- Reposts
- 116
- Quotes
- 69
- Replies
- 49
- Bookmarks
- 427
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 106.5K views would cost $11K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 9.4x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 12 views for every follower of @LoubnaBenAllal1.
What launched?
Hugging Face launched Carbon-X, an open 14B DNA model midtrained on DNA and text that can answer questions about sequences and generate new DNA.
How does it compare with other launches?
Hugging Face Carbon-X has more views than 40% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 61% of the median launch's 175K views.
- Hugging Face Carbon-X106.5K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Hugging Face Carbon-X | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 106.5K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.84% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 12 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 69 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 40.1 | 14.2 |
Other Hugging Face launches we track: Hugging Face Carbon (41.3K views) and Hugging Face SmolTalk2 (31.5K views). All 3 Hugging Face launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 40% | #990 |
| Accounts under 10K followers | 571 | 131K | 81% | #315 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 55% | #1205 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 61% | #1701 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 9.2K followers, the post reached 12 times the account's following. Launches from accounts under 10K followers reach a median of 61 times their following, so this one went about 19% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 315 of 571 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 69 quote posts, 6.5 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing Carbon-X: The best open DNA model.". The post runs 45 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 162.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- How many views did Hugging Face Carbon-X get on X?
- 106,454 views. Hugging Face posted it from @LoubnaBenAllal1 on Oct 22, 2026, and the post has 657 likes, 116 reposts, 69 quotes, 49 replies and 427 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Hugging Face Carbon-X a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1701 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 40% of them and 61% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.84%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 106.5K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 106.5K views would cost $11K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 9.4x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/hugging-face-carbon-x, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.