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Clément Delangue

person · Co-founder and CEO, Hugging FaceCredibility: 55%

Why this score? Chief executive of the company breached in the July 2026 agent intrusion. Authoritative for Hugging Face's own account and for his own demands; a motivated party on OpenAI's conduct and on the standing of open-weight models, which are his platform's business.

Tracked Statements (1)

The first autonomous agent cyber-attack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response! Let's release the traces from the 'rogue' agents so the entire research community can study what happened. Let's commit $100M in compute from OAI to help the Hugging Face community build powerful cyber defenses with the best open and closed models.?

— Clément Delangue · Jul 27, 2026
Context: A demand rather than a factual claim, so there is nothing in it to falsify; what is checkable is whether either half is met. Neither had been by 30 July. OpenAI declined to comment on the demands and referred back to its earlier statement about an “unprecedented security incident”, and has published no commitment to release the agents' traces or the compute. The company making the demand did release its own traces: Hugging Face published an interactive step-by-step replay of the intrusion alongside its forensic timeline the same day. Delangue is the chief executive of the company that was breached and of the largest open-weight model platform, and the demand for $100M is for compute rather than cash — a distinction some coverage of it loses.