The French Billionaires: A Tale of Access and Exclusion In Silicon Valley, a new breed of billionaire is emerging – one that embodies the promise of artificial intelligence as both democratizer and exclusive club.
The recent acquisition of Hugging Face by Nvidia has minted three French founders as billionaires overnight, sparking admiration and concern about the future of AI research and development.
Clement Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face's founders, have long advocated for open source AI.