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Update download command for Hugging Face models#466

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using huggingface-cli will throw following warning :

⚠️  Warning: 'huggingface-cli download' is deprecated. Use 'hf download' instead

using `huggingface-cli` will throw following warning :

```
⚠️  Warning: 'huggingface-cli download' is deprecated. Use 'hf download' instead
```
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Pull request overview

Updates the installation/build instructions to use the hf CLI when downloading the BitNet GGUF model.

Changes:

  • Replaced huggingface-cli download ... with hf download ... in the “Build the project” README instructions.

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```bash
# Manually download the model and run with local path
huggingface-cli download microsoft/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T-gguf --local-dir models/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T
hf download microsoft/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T-gguf --local-dir models/BitNet-b1.58-2B-4T
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