Clément Delangue
Also known as Clement Delangue
Clément Delangue co-founded Hugging Face with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf. The company connects a public model and dataset platform with shared research software. Delangue coauthored TransferTransfo, Transformers, and Datasets with their teams, linking early dialogue research to tools other developers can reuse. Hugging Face also supported BigScience’s BLOOM release, a collaboration across researchers and institutions. Its scope later expanded into robotics: LeRobot began in 2024 under Rémi Cadene, and Pollen Robotics joined through an acquisition announced in April 2025. Delangue was CEO at the time. He continues public robot-related work in October 2026. These projects depend on employees, maintainers, outside researchers, and community contributions, with licenses and practical limits attached to each release.
- Now at
- Hugging Face
- Works
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Timeline
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Company beginnings
Shared founding
Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf build Hugging Face together.
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2019–2020
Dialogue and Transformers
Delangue coauthors TransferTransfo and the Transformers library paper with their teams.
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2021
Datasets
He contributes to a shared paper on tools for using and sharing datasets.
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2022
BLOOM
BigScience releases a language model through an international collaboration.
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2024–2025
Robotics tools and hardware
Rémi Cadene leads LeRobot; Hugging Face later acquires Pollen Robotics.
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October 2026
Public contributions
Delangue continues public project activity. In April 2025, Delangue was the company’s CEO.
Sources and credits
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