Julien ChaumondCo-founder and CTO · Hugging FaceResearcher↗Both at Hugging Face
Founder · Executive
Clément Delangue
Hugging FaceCo-founder and CEO
Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, which grew from a chatbot app into the central open-source hub for AI models and datasets used by millions of developers.[1] A frequent advocate for open and collaborative AI, he trained in political science and economics rather than engineering.
Career & education
Current roleHugging Face2016-presentCo-founder and CEO
Hugging Face2016-presentPreviously
Mention2013-2014
Mention2013-2014Moodstocks2011-2012
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations17,937As of Oct 22, '26
citations+1,644Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
With Thomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh, Julien Chaumond, Anthony Moi, Pierric Cistac, Tim Rault and others ·Presented Hugging Face's Transformers library for using, adapting and sharing pretrained language models.
References
- Sequoia — Hugging Face and Clément Delanguesequoiacap.com
Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, which grew from a chatbot app into the central open-source hub for AI models and datasets used by millions of developers.
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