Clment Delangue
Clément Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, a platform for hosting and sharing open-source machine learning models and datasets. He is best known for advocating open-source AI and building Hugging Face into a widely used platform across the AI community, including roughly half of the Fortune 500. He runs the company from Miami and has led it to over $100 million in annual run-rate revenue while keeping the platform free and open-source for the vast majority of users. He has also testified before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on the importance of openness in AI innovation.
“At this small scale, I think it shows that there's a business model for open source. There's a business model for open source platform. We kind of knew it, right? Because there's been GitHub before and there's been a bunch of open source successful companies. But I guess it's a validation of that.”
Source→“The most dangerous things usually are not so much developed in open source. Funny thing is that sometimes safety people are talking about the nuclear bomb. Nuclear bomb has never been built in open source. And I think it would have never been built in open source. It's been built in a closed source, proprietary team with billions of dollars of resources.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.