How Clem Delangue became the public face of open-source AI
Delangue has become a central voice in the debate over whether to keep AI models private or host them in public.
Clement Delangue came to the U.S. from France a decade ago to launch an AI chatbot called Hugging Face (named after the popular emoji), which was aimed at teenagers. But Hugging Face, the company, decided to take an open-source approach to developing the bot, asking a small community of friends to contribute new features on an open platform. After releasing more AI tools this way, the community grew and embraced the platform, which became the Hugging Face of today. And along the way, Delangue became the public face of open-source AI.
Read Full Story