Profil Financier
Clément Delangue occupe actuellement le rang #2410 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $1.7 B ($0 sur 24h).
French entrepreneur Clément Delangue cofounded Hugging Face, a website that hosts millions of open-source models and datasets.
The startup was founded in 2016 in New York as a playful chatbot for teens, but the cofounders quickly realized the models powering the consumer app were more valuable than the app itself.
Today, 18 million developers and researchers and 200,000 organizations use the platform to build AI applications.
In September 2026, Nvidia agreed to acquire the company for $12.9 billion.
Delangue grew up in La Bassée, a small town in Northern France with three siblings.
As a teenager Clément Delangue sold motorbikes on eBay and tried selling equipment in his father's shop.