Clem Delangue
Clément "Clem" Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the open-source machine learning platform headquartered in New York. He co-founded the company in 2016 alongside Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, and has grown it into the central hub for the AI community, hosting over one million models and datasets. Delangue is best known for championing the democratization of AI through open-source infrastructure and the Hugging Face Transformers library, which has become foundational tooling for researchers and developers worldwide.
“If you ask most startups, most academia in the U.S. that are using open source, they're usually using Chinese open source models, right? You've probably heard of DeepSeek, of Qwen, of Kimi.”
Source→“We've shipped almost 10,000 of them all over the world. So it's probably one of the most widely distributed robots of the year at this point... There's been over 300 apps that have been created for it already.”
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