Clément Delangue

Career

Clément Delangue co-founded Hugging Face with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf and serves as its chief executive. Hugging Face describes itself as a platform for AI builders that hosts open models, datasets, and ready-to-use applications.¹

In April 2025 Delangue co-authored Hugging Face's announcement that it was acquiring Pollen Robotics, the maker of the Reachy robots, extending the company's open robotics work beyond the LeRobot library. In September 2026 NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face, writing that Delangue had approached NVIDIA while considering the company's next chapter and that Hugging Face would remain an open platform.¹³

Open-source work

Delangue is a co-author of the 2019 paper introducing the Transformers library and of the 2021 paper describing Datasets, a community library for natural language processing data. These author credits are the documented links between Delangue and the libraries; the code itself is credited to the wider Hugging Face team and community.⁴⁶

As CEO, Delangue has represented Hugging Face in partner announcements about open models, including NVIDIA's October 2025 announcement of new open models and data, which quotes Delangue as Hugging Face's CEO.²

Work and contributions

• Hugging Face Hub

  Co-founded and leads Hugging Face, which operates the Hub. Its documentation describes Git-based repositories for models, datasets, and demo apps, with documented ways to download models and use them through supported libraries.¹⁵

• Transformers

  Listed among the authors of "HuggingFace's Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing," the paper introducing the library (first submitted October 2019, revised July 2020).⁴

• Datasets Published research

  Listed among the authors of "Datasets: A Community Library for Natural Language Processing" (September 2021), which describes a library that standardizes interfaces, versioning, and documentation for NLP datasets.⁶

Timeline

1. Oct 9, 2019Co-authored the first version of the paper introducing Hugging Face's Transformers library.⁴
2. Sep 7, 2021Co-authored the paper describing the Datasets community library for natural language processing.⁶
3. Apr 14, 2025Co-authored Hugging Face's announcement of its acquisition of Pollen Robotics.¹
4. Oct 28, 2025Spoke for Hugging Face in NVIDIA's announcement of new open models and datasets.²
5. Sep 3, 2026NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face, the company Delangue leads.³

Where they work

• Hugging Face 34 people in the wiki

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