Cofounder and CEO, Hugging Face
Search every verified Clement Delangue interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Clement Delangue, cofounder and CEO of Hugging Face, made a series of media appearances in mid-2026 discussing open-source AI, regulation, and robotics. On the Equity Podcast, Delangue said he has repeatedly observed companies starting with proprietary frontier APIs and later switching to open-source models for cost reasons. He described the potential risk of a few companies controlling AI, stating that keeping models behind closed doors creates an "asymmetry of power" and argued that the world can be made safer by "leveling up the playing field" through open-source competition. Commenting on government scrutiny of Anthropic's Mythos model, Delangue said that being labeled "too dangerous" can serve as effective marketing for frontier AI firms and noted that it is "fair for the US government to at least try to get more transparency." He cautioned against spreading regulatory constraints to smaller entities such as startups and academia, which lack the resources of large AI companies. Delangue also promoted open-source approaches in robotics, citing Hugging Face's release of a small robot called "Rich Cimini" and stating that transparency and control over robots that interact with people require open-source development.
“I think it's fair for the US government to at least try to get more transparency about what these models can and can't do. And, you know, I think it's important to remember that these are gigantic companies, you know, fastest growing in the world on their way to maybe be the most valuable companies by the end of this y...”
“I think it's even more important than in general. Just because, you know, if you think of having a robot at home that is interacting with your environment with your kids... I don't want to have to trust a black box control just by one megacorp being able to do anything. I want to have some transparency about what's goi...”
“When we started Hugging Face, the whole field in the US was very open with open research, open source weights, and that's very much what propelled the sector in the US. If you think of ChatGPT, the T in ChatGPT is actually transformers which was an open source contribution by Google. So this kind of like emulation and...”
“If you're using only an API, sending your data, sending your queries to an API provider and actually not building anything yourself long term, I really think you're going to be at the disadvantage. First, this provider is going to try to take advantage of you and kind of like milk you as much as possible with their mar...”
“We are probably not in an AI as a general field bubble, but I feel like if there's one specific domain of AI where there's so much investment that there's maybe a risk of overinvesting, it's large language models distributed behind APIs. You see the building of crazy data centers for it and obviously you see a lot of r...”
“The idea of like restricting a technology like AI based on risks is just like for example you would say okay some people can punch other people so let's tie down everybody's hands right because it's too dangerous. In reality you don't want to do that because your hands are so useful. The way you want to control it is u...”
“It's really important that we build more in the US on this topic [robotics] because it's very likely that Chinese are going to dominate robotics or at least they're already dominating. We obviously have a lot of strength for it with the strength of the startup ecosystem in the US, the strength of the frontier models.”
“I think Nvidia recognize that they need everyone to be able to build AI, not just a few players. And so that's why they supporting open source AI so much; that's why they became, in my opinion, the American king on open source AI.”
“Open source models are really kind of like the foundation to build all technology. I think what we need is every single country in the world to be able to build their own models so that everyone else can build on their values; if only China is dominating open source, then it creates a bunch of risks and biases.”
“We should be scared about ending up in a world where only a few companies are able to do AI; open source — the ability to share models and datasets openly — is a way to fight these natural tendencies.”
“We decided to build an affordable robot because when an AI builder is starting with robotics they might not want to buy a $20k or $50k robot — so we sell Richie Mini for around $400–$500 to make it easy to experiment with open-source AI robotics.”
“On compute we’ve mostly been partnering with cloud providers rather than building our own solutions — partnering with AWS and Google Cloud and a range of inference providers instead of reinventing the wheel.”
“When you think about doing good in the world, I tend to trust systems and incentives more than people — we built Hugging Face so that if we make open source more popular, we also do well as a company, aligning incentives to keep doubling down on our mission.”
“We could have built larger proprietary models, but we decided not to because that direction would blur incentives and make it harder to keep focusing on open source.”
“We’ve seen the beauty of transparency in AI — black boxes create fear, whereas transparency lets us focus on real, solvable problems like model biases.”
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As government scrutiny over Anthropic's Mythos AI model takes center stage in the public debate over AI's national security concerns, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says being labeled "too dangerous" may actually be good marketing for frontier AI firms. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to explain. -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube: / @bloombergtechnology Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here: • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley and a…
In the same way that open source radically changed how software is developed, openly shared Machine Learning models have fueled the rapid growth of AI. Join Datadog co-founder and CEO Olivier Pomel as he hosts Clément Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the leading open source platform and hub for sharing models and datasets. They’ll discuss how AI is evolving, how organizations are responding, and what this means for you and your engineering team. This session will be part of our livestream programming.
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Jensen Huang just used GTC to reposition Nvidia from a chip company to an open-source AI platform. NemoClaw, open frontier models, Nemotron —he's doing more for open-source AI than any CEO in America. It sounds generous, but it's strategic. Nvidia gives away the software and monetizes what it runs on. Zuckerberg spent years and billions trying to escape his dependence on Apple and Google's platforms. Huang is making sure Nvidia never ends up in that position. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue joins live. Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is the platform where most of the open-sourc…
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