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Thomas Wolf - Co-founder and CSO of Hugging Face

By Kamal Kashyap • Jul 02, 2026
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Thomas Wolf is a French researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, the largest open source AI model community.

Introduction

Thomas Wolf is a French computer scientist and tech founder. He is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of the open-source repository platform Hugging Face.

Open Source Library

Wolf is the creator of the Hugging Face "Transformers" library, which revolutionized the NLP ecosystem by making pre-trained models accessible to developers with just a few lines of code.

BLOOM and Open Science

Wolf led the BigScience project, a collaborative effort involving over 1,000 global researchers that trained BLOOM, the first large multilingual open-science language model.

Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf
Company Hugging Face
Country France
Born April 14, 1982 (age 44)
Paris, France
Education Sorbonne University, PhD
Notable work Hugging Face Transformers Library, BLOOM LLM
Title Co-founder & CSO of Hugging Face

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