Clément Delangue

CEO, Hugging Face

Clément Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the central hub of the open machine-learning ecosystem. He has made the company the default home for sharing open models, datasets, and ML tooling.

Company: Hugging Face
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Notable for

Co-founded Hugging FaceBuilt the leading open-model hubProminent advocate for open-source AI

Delangue, originally from France, co-founded Hugging Face in 2016 with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, initially building a chatbot app before pivoting to open-source machine-learning tools. The company's Transformers library became the de facto standard for working with pretrained models.

Under his leadership the Hugging Face Hub grew into the "GitHub of machine learning," hosting millions of models, datasets, and demos, and serving as the primary distribution channel for open-weight models from Meta, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Mistral, and countless independent developers.

Delangue has been a consistent advocate for open, collaborative AI development as a counterweight to closed frontier labs, positioning Hugging Face as neutral infrastructure that benefits from the growth of open models regardless of who produces them.

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