CEO and co-founder of Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform that hosts hundreds of thousands of models and datasets. Often called the GitHub of AI, Hugging Face is central infrastructure for the global AI research and development community.
Delangue built the distribution layer that the entire open-source AI ecosystem runs on, and that infrastructure leverage is underappreciated. Hugging Face is to AI models what GitHub is to code — the default place everything gets published and discovered. When Meta, Mistral, or any other lab releases open weights, they release on Hugging Face. That makes Delangue the quiet kingmaker of open AI: he doesn't build the models, but he controls where they live. The $4.5B valuation still looks cheap if open-source AI keeps winning market share.
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