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Julien Chaumond

Co-founder, Hugging Face

RolesCo-founder, Hugging Face
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About Julien Chaumond

Julien Chaumond is a co-founder of Hugging Face.

Hugging Face: The main hub for open models and datasets; trains SmolLM.

Today Hugging Face ranks #69 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 51 papers in the last year and 4 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Julien is part of that story.

Facts from public company information; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Julien, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

Also at Hugging Face

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