Research Engineer — creator of the Open LLM Leaderboard
Clémentine Fourrier is a Hugging Face research engineer who created and runs the Open LLM Leaderboard — the de-facto public benchmark that ranks open-weight models and shapes which frontier open models developers actually adopt. NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9B on 2026-09-03 ($11.9B to shareholders + up to $1B equity retention for HF employees joining NVIDIA; HF to remain an open platform; expected close H1 2027 pending regulatory approvals; antitrust runway + GPU-neutrality of the Hub are the live radar questions). Listed in Hugging Face's public organization directory (187 members, retrieved 2026-09-04); named at the HF All Hands where the deal was announced.
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