Clément Delangue
Background
Clément Delangue grew up in northern France and studied business and computer science at ESCP Europe in Paris. A passionate tech entrepreneur, Delangue co-founded VideoNot.es and worked at Moodstocks (an image recognition startup acquired by Google) before co-founding Hugging Face.
Role at Hugging Face, Inc.
Clément Delangue is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hugging Face, Inc. In 2016, alongside Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, Delangue co-founded Hugging Face in Paris. Under Delangue's charismatic, open-science-driven leadership, Hugging Face executed its historic 2018 pivot from a teenage chatbot to the open-source platform for AI. Delangue assembled a legendary syndicate of backers—including Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm—raising $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation. Scaling Hugging Face past $100 million in annual revenue, Delangue has emerged as the global champion of open-source artificial intelligence. Delangue's charismatic leadership and unwavering commitment to open science established him as the global champion of open-source artificial intelligence. Operating with radical transparency and intellectual joy, Delangue assembled the historic consortium of semiconductor and cloud titans that capitalized Hugging Face at $4.5 billion, while fiercely protecting the open commons of AI from proprietary monopoly capture.