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Clement Delangue

Co-founder & CEO, Hugging Face · USA

✓ Verified current role· as of 2026-09-14

Clement Delangue is the CEO of Hugging Face. Delangue is based in USA. Delangue has held the role since 2016. Delangue was born in 1988 and educated at Institution Saint-Jean de Douai and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Hugging Face's Transformers library is built for natural language processing applications. The Hugging Face platform allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work.

Recent developments

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Recent coverage has focused on Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face for approximately $13 billion, a deal that made Delangue and co-founders billionaires and positioned the open-source AI platform as central to Nvidia's infrastructure strategy. Headlines have examined Delangue's earlier rejection of Nvidia funding before eventually pursuing the sale, as well as the significance of Hugging Face's evolution into a major player in AI development. Earlier coverage also documented a security incident involving an alleged unauthorized agent and Delangue's public statements calling for accountability from OpenAI.

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Born
June 14, 1988
Citizenship
France
Education
Institution Saint-Jean de Douai, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University College Dublin

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Clement Delangue: FAQ

Who is Clement Delangue?
Clement Delangue is the Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, based in USA.
What company does Clement Delangue lead?
Clement Delangue is CEO of Hugging Face, a role held since 2016.
Where was Clement Delangue educated?
Clement Delangue studied at Institution Saint-Jean de Douai, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University College Dublin.