Clement Delangue, who posts as “clem,” is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the open and collaborative platform now used by millions of developers, researchers, and companies. His Hugging Face profile shows him as a core member of the organization, active across the platform’s model, dataset, and demo communities, with a stated mission of making good machine learning openly available.
He co-founded Hugging Face in 2016, originally as a chatbot app, before the company pivoted to AI infrastructure. Its open-source Transformers library made state-of-the-art language models easy for any developer to download and use, and the Hugging Face Hub grew into the de facto place to publish and discover models and datasets. In his written statement to the US Senate’s bipartisan AI Insight Forum, hosted on Hugging Face’s own site, Delangue identifies himself as co-founder and CEO and argues that open and transparent AI development supports safety, accountability, and broad access rather than undermining them.
Delangue has become one of the most visible advocates for open-source AI, arguing that openness lets a wider community inspect, improve, and build on models instead of leaving capability concentrated in a few firms. For a general reader, he matters because the infrastructure his company built is where much of the world’s practical AI development now happens.