Founder Profile
Thomas Wolf
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Thomas Wolf?
Thomas Wolf is a founder of Hugging Face, Inc., which was founded in 2016 with Clément Delangue and Julien Chaumond.
- Company founded
- Hugging Face, Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Clément Delangue and Julien Chaumond
Background
Physicist with a PhD from Sorbonne University (Pierre and Marie Curie) who worked as a European patent attorney before moving into machine learning.
Founding Story
Thomas Wolf is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face. He wrote the 2018 PyTorch port of BERT that became the Transformers library, co-led the BigScience workshop that produced the 176B-parameter BLOOM model in 2022, and oversees the company's open science work, including its small model and robotics research. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Nvidia Confirms $12.9B Hugging Face Deal (Yahoo Finance) (Hugging Face, Inc.)
- Forbes: Nvidia Moves To Buy Hugging Face (Hugging Face, Inc.)