Delangue Fears Closed Labs, Sells to Nvidia
Delangue blames closed labs for AI risk and warns a few companies monopolize compute, while Nvidia, the dominant AI chipmaker, buys Hugging Face.
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Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
Clément Delangue co-founded Hugging Face with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf. As CEO, he has helped build a platform for sharing models, datasets and applications, alongside open-source machine learning tools. His work emphasizes access, collaboration and open science, including testimony to U.S. lawmakers. Hugging Face has also expanded into robotics; NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire the company in September 2026.
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Clément Delangue co-founded Hugging Face with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf. As CEO, he has helped build a platform for sharing models, datasets and applications, alongside open-source machine learning tools. His work emphasizes access, collaboration and open science, including testimony to U.S. lawmakers. Hugging Face has also expanded into robotics; NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire the company in September 2026.
- Organization
- Hugging Face
- Co-founders
- Julien Chaumond; Thomas Wolf
- Focus
- Open models; collaborative AI infrastructure; open robotics
- Transaction status
- NVIDIA acquisition agreement announced September 2026; closing not established here
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Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
NVIDIA announces agreement to acquire Hugging Face
NVIDIA announces an agreement to acquire Hugging Face and states that the platform will retain support for multiple clouds, hardware providers and model builders; this is an acquisition announcement.
Source: NVIDIA: agreement to acquire Hugging Face ↗Hugging Face and Pollen introduce Reachy Mini
The companies introduce a programmable open-source robot for experimentation and human–robot interaction. The launch represents Hugging Face’s expansion into physical AI during Delangue’s leadership.
Source: Hugging Face: Reachy Mini ↗Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics
Hugging Face welcomes the Pollen Robotics team and its open-source robot hardware, extending its LeRobot software and community work into the sale of physical robotic systems.
Source: Hugging Face: Pollen Robotics acquisition ↗Announces a Google Cloud partnership
Hugging Face announces collaboration with Google across open science, open source, cloud and hardware. Delangue describes the aim as helping developers build with open models and cloud infrastructure.
Source: Hugging Face: Google Cloud partnership ↗Testifies to the U.S. House science committee
Delangue submits testimony as Hugging Face’s co-founder and CEO, explaining its model-sharing infrastructure and arguing for open science and broader access to machine learning development.
Source: Clément Delangue: House committee testimony ↗Co-authors the Transformers library paper
Delangue appears among the authors of the paper describing Hugging Face’s open-source Transformers library, its unified model interface and a community collection of pretrained models.
Source: Wolf et al.: HuggingFace’s Transformers ↗
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