Clement Delangue — CEO, Hugging Face

**Clement Delangue** is the co-founder and CEO of **Hugging Face**, the platform that has become the 'GitHub of machine learning' — hosting over 500,000 models, 100,000 datasets, and millions of ML applications. A French entrepreneur, he built Hugging Face from a chatbot company into the central hub of the open-source ML ecosystem, with a $4.5B valuation.\n\nClement's perspective is that AI should be collaborative, open, and community-driven. Hugging Face's success demonstrates that developer community and open-source distribution can create enormous value even in AI, where the conventional wisdom favors proprietary models.