Clem Delangue

AI Founder

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ABOUT

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the leading open-source machine learning collaboration hub hosting over 1 million models, datasets, and applications. Champion of open science, open weights, and reproducible evaluation benchmarks in artificial intelligence. Recognized by TIME100 in AI.

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THE WORK BEHIND THE PROFILE

Proof of Work

explanationChecked Sep 20, 2026

The Open LLM Leaderboard: Standardized Evaluation for Open Foundation Models

Established the Open LLM Leaderboard utilizing the LM Evaluation Harness to provide transparent, reproducible, contamination-checked benchmarks (MMLU-Pro, GSM8k, IFEval, MuSR, MATH) across thousands of community LLMs.

Scope & limitations

Benchmarks face test set leakage risks over time; static multiple-choice formats do not fully evaluate conversational agency or multi-turn tool calling.

Context: Automated cluster evaluating FP16/BF16 weights on standardized EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness test suites.

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Hugging Face Transformers Platform & Open Weights Ecosystem

Co-created and scaled the Hugging Face platform, which provides standardized APIs and model abstractions for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX across hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art transformer checkpoints.

Scope & limitations

Coordinating hundreds of diverse community model architectures requires continuous backwards-compatibility testing across rapidly evolving PyTorch versions.

Context: PyTorch, SafeTensors, ONNX, vLLM, DeepSpeed, BitsAndBytes quantization backends.

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