Hugging Face
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Founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in New York, Hugging Face started as a chatbot company before pivoting to become the GitHub of machine learning. Today, Hugging Face hosts over 900,000 models, 200,000 datasets, and 350,000 demo applications on its platform, used by millions of researchers and developers worldwide. The company raised at a $4.5 billion valuation in 2023 with investments from Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Intel, and Salesforce. Hugging Face's Transformers library has become the most widely used machine learning library in the world, making state-of-the-art NLP models accessible to any developer.
Active Founders
Clément Delangue
Founder / CEO
Clément Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face. Born in France, he previously worked in marketing at various tech companies before co-founding Hugging Face. Clément has championed an open-source approach to AI development, building the platform that has democratized access to state-of-the-art machine learning models for millions of researchers and developers around the world.
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder / Chief Science Officer
Thomas Wolf is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face. A PhD physicist turned AI researcher, he led the development of the Transformers library that became the most widely used machine learning library in the world. Thomas is a prolific researcher and contributor to the open-source AI community and is widely respected as one of the most important advocates for democratizing access to AI tools.
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