Clem Delangue

Clem Delangue is co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face[1][2][3]. He began his career in artificial intelligence and machine learning through earlier ventures. He co-founded and served as CEO of VideoNot.es from June 2010 to July 2011[8]. He then worked in product roles at Moodstocks from March 2011 to February 2012, a company focused on machine learning for computer vision that was subsequently acquired by Google[4][7]. Following this experience, he held a position in product and CMO at mention from July 2013 to August 2014, which was acquired by Mynewsdesk[6]. Delangue's educational background includes a Master in management from ESCP completed between 2008 and 2012[11], studies at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore from 2010 to 2011[12], and coursework in computer science and programming methodology at Stanford University from 2011 to 2012[10]. He has served as co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face since July 2016[5].

Founded

• Hugging Face

Experience

1. 
   Co-founder & CEO

   Hugging FaceJul 2016 to Present
2. Product & CMO (acquired by Mynewsdesk)

   mentionJul 2013 to Aug 2014
3. Product (acquired by Google)

   MoodstocksMar 2011 to Feb 2012
4. Co-Founder & CEO

   VideoNot.esJun 2010 to Jul 2011
5. Innovation

   eBay FR/UKMay 2010 to Dec 2010

Education

• Stanford University · Non-degree program, Introduction to computer science | Programming methodology2011 - 2012
• ESCP · Master in management, Management2008 - 2012
• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore · PGP, Management2010 - 2011

Media & appearances

• Full Interview: Hugging Face Co-Founder and CEO Clem DelangueFace the Nation and CBS News

  Clem Delangue discusses Hugging Face's disclosure of a cyber attack by an autonomous AI system from OpenAI that executed 17,000 hacking actions over 4.5 days. He explains that Hugging Face defended itself using open-source AI models and advocated for regulatory frameworks that mandate disclosure of agent cyberattacks, promote transparency through agent traces, and support open models as a way to balance power between defenders and attackers.

• SDS 564: Clem Delangue on Hugging Face and TransformersSuper Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

  Clem Delangue discusses transformer architectures and their ubiquity in NLP, explaining how the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper introduced transfer learning as a fundamental approach to machine learning. He describes Hugging Face's open-source strategy and business model, explaining how the platform democratizes machine learning through community contributions of over 30,000 open models, and provides examples of companies using Hugging Face including Grammarly, Bloomberg, and others for applications in text classification, summarization, and multimodal tasks.

• ACQ2: Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)Acquired

  Clem Delangue describes Hugging Face as the number one platform for AI builders, with over 5 million daily users who use it to find models, datasets, and build AI applications. He explains that Hugging Face hosts over 3 million shared models, datasets, and apps, with a new model, dataset, or app being built every 10 seconds on the platform, and positions it as analogous to GitHub but for AI rather than traditional software.

• One AI Model to Rule Them All? -- Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue20VC with Harry Stebbings

  Clem Delangue discusses the philosophical divide in AI between centralized single models versus distributed open-source approaches. He argues that companies should build and optimize their own AI models tailored to their specific use cases rather than relying on single API-based models, drawing an analogy to web development where custom-built solutions outperform generic platforms in the long term.

In the news

• Clem Delangue on X@ClementDelangue · Aug 18, 2026

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