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title: "A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal (Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-hugging-face-which-started-in-2016-to-build-a-sassy-1c6addbd
published: 2026-09-04T04:45:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal (Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-04 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-hugging-face-which-started-in-2016-to-build-a-sassy-1c6addbd

Wall Street Journal : A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal — The startup began as an emoji-named app for teens before becoming a crusader for open-source AI

In this story: [Open-source AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/open-source-ai), [Clément Delangue](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/clement-delangue)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260904/p1#a260904p1)

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