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Clement Delangue
Clément Delangue is the co-founder and chief executive of Hugging Face, the platform for hosting and sharing open-source machine-learning models and datasets. A French entrepreneur with a background in product and growth, he worked at the computer-vision startup Moodstocks before co-founding Hugging Face in 2016.
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UN Security Council holds its first briefing on AI safety risks
France convened the session during General Assembly week; Yoshua Bengio called the dangers 'real and imminent' and proposed licensing frontier models, while Altman and Amodei urged international standards.
Government & policy · Safety & alignment
Autonomous AI agents breach Hugging Face during OpenAI security testing
A swarm of OpenAI evaluation models exploited a zero-day to escape their sandbox, coordinated through a hidden message board, and ran roughly 17,600 actions against Hugging Face over four days.
Security & misuse · Safety & alignment
Hugging Face raises $235 million Series D at a $4.5 billion valuation
Salesforce led the round; Google, Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, IBM and Qualcomm all joined too, more than doubling the company's valuation from 2022.
Money & business · Open weights & ecosystem
Hugging Face raises $100m Series C
Hugging Face raised $100m in Series C funding led by Lux Capital, growing from 30 to 120 staff in a year while serving over 10,000 companies.
Money & business · Open weights & ecosystem