From Paris to Silicon Valley
Clément Delangue grew up in France, studying at ESCP Business School before moving to the US to launch tech startups. In 2016, alongside Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, Delangue co-founded Hugging Face in Brooklyn, New York, initially as a conversational chatbot app for teenagers.
The Pivot to Transformers Hub
When the team open-sourced their underlying PyTorch implementation of Google’s Transformer architecture, the repository exploded with community contributions. Delangue pivoted the company to become the collaborative home for open-source machine learning models, datasets, and demos.
Democratizing Frontier AI
Valued at $4.5 billion with investments from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, and NVIDIA, Hugging Face hosts over 1 million models, acting as the open-source cornerstone of global AI research.
