Quentin Lhoest

@lhoestq

Open Source ML Engineer — maintainer of 🤗 Datasets, Hugging Face

📍 Paris, France

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OSINT Profile

Quentin Lhoest is an open-source ML/data engineer at Hugging Face and the maintainer of 🤗 Datasets (GitHub/X lhoestq; CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay M2 MVA; ex-Feedly). 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). GIS pin = Hugging Face Paris open-source hub. Named on the HF All Hands roster for the 2026-09-03 announcement.

Public Relation Edge (do not over-claim)

Hugging Face — ML engineer — maintainer of 🤗 Datasets (engineering)NVIDIA — Acquirer in the ~$12.9B deal (ma_event)hf-nvidia-ma-2026 — Named at the HF All Hands (2026-09-03) (event)Andrés Marafioti — Datasets/🤗 DATA-CUT co-author (professional)

Public OpCo / HoldCo Nodes

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📍 Paris, France · 48.8566, 2.3522 — live geo-pin on the $UM-Radar vector map

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✓ https://www.getprog.ai/profile/42851186

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