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.
“Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, whose company was recently attacked by an OpenAI agent...”
“Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue...said last year...that the U.S. tech industry was sleeping on Chinese open-source models and that the 'LLM bubble' was close to bursting”
“If you're an AI company or a technology company, you don't want to outsource your core capabilities to another company, to a black box API that you don't control, don't have any visibility on, and don't really have any sort of ownership. — Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue”
“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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