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Clément Delangue - Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face

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Clément Delangue is a French tech entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, driving open access to AI models and datasets.

Introduction

Clément Delangue is a French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hugging Face, the world's leading hub for open-source machine learning models.

Founding Hugging Face

Delangue co-founded Hugging Face in 2016. Originally launched as a conversational chatbot app, the founders shifted focus to model hosting, creating a GitHub-like platform for deep learning models, datasets, and demos.

Open Access Mission

Delangue is a vocal advocate for open-weight models, believing that collaborative, transparent research is essential for safe and ethical AI progress.

Clément Delangue
Clément Delangue
Clément Delangue
Company Hugging Face
Country France
Born May 12, 1988 (age 38)
Paris, France
Education ESCP Europe
Notable work Hugging Face AI Hub, Open Science initiatives
Title Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face

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