Founder of a listed tool

Clément Delangue

Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face

Clément Delangue co-founded Hugging Face in New York in 2016 with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf and is its chief executive. The company began with a chatbot app, then turned to a platform for sharing machine learning models and datasets and to open-source libraries such as Transformers.

What Clément builds

  • Carbon-X C · Open-weight models

    Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0.

    Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

  • Hugging Face Inference Endpoints B · GPU & serverless compute

    Managed Hugging Face service that deploys a Hub model as a dedicated, autoscaling HTTPS endpoint on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, using vLLM, TGI, SGLang, llama.cpp, TEI or a custom container. Managed by REST API, Python client, CLI or MCP.

    Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

  • SmolLM3-3B C · Open-weight models

    SmolLM3-3B is Hugging Face's open-weight dense 3B instruct model with switchable reasoning, tool calling and a 65,536-token native context, published in BF16 safetensors under Apache 2.0 with its training data and recipes.

    Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Clément Delangue?

Clément Delangue co-founded Hugging Face in New York in 2016 with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf and is its chief executive. The company began with a chatbot app, then turned to a platform for sharing machine learning models and datasets and to open-source libraries such as Transformers.

What does Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face make?

Anchor Terminal lists Carbon-X, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and SmolLM3-3B from Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face. Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0.

Who has invested in Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face?

The sources our research read name Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Addition, a_capital, SV Angel, Betaworks, AIX Ventures, Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman and Olivier Pomel.

How are Clément's tools graded?

Carbon-X is graded C, 61 out of 100; Hugging Face Inference Endpoints is graded B, 64.7 out of 100; SmolLM3-3B is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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