Clément Delangue
Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
French entrepreneur who turned a teen-chatbot app into Hugging Face, the open-source hub where most public AI models, datasets, and demos are shared.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues open models and open datasets keep AI checkable, competitive, and cheaper than a handful of closed APIs.
- Says most organizations are better served by small, specialized models than by one giant general model.
- Has repeatedly warned that hype cycles and "AGI" talk distract from shipping useful, boring tools.
Accomplishments
- Co-founded Hugging Face in 2016; it began as a chatbot app and became the main public hub for models, datasets, and demos.
- Hugging Face hosts millions of free model and dataset repositories plus Spaces, where anyone can try a model in a browser.
- Backed the Transformers library, now standard tooling in machine learning work.
Papers & key writings
Writes mainly through Hugging Face blog posts and social threads rather than papers; the company's research team publishes separately.
Links
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