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Clément Delangue

The Hub

Building the place open models live

Rating

87Impact score
Research68
Systems built90
Openness98
Influence92
FromFrance / USA
Era2016–present

Domains

Open modelsPlatformsCommunity

Scouting report

Co-founded Hugging Face and turned it from a chatbot app into the default distribution point for open models, datasets and demos. Whatever you think of the company, the Hub is the reason an open-weight release can reach everyone the day it lands, and the reason a small lab can ship a model at all.

Curator’s note

Not a researcher. Built the infrastructure open research needed to matter.

Portrait

Painted from a photograph of Clément Delangue by SiliconANGLE theCUBE, licensed CC BY 3.0.

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