ML Engineer (ex-Trendyol); Türkiye AI community lead
Merve Noyan is a Hugging Face ML engineer (previously Trendyol's ML team) and one of the most visible AI-education voices in Türkiye — NLP course author and community lead for the Turkish open-source scene. 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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