Leandro von Werra

Co-author of 🤗 Datasets and 'NLP with Transformers'

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

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OSINT Profile

Leandro von Werra is a Hugging Face research engineer, lead author of the 🤗 Datasets library and co-author of O'Reilly's 'NLP with Transformers' — the tooling and textbook that standardized how the field loads and trains on data. 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.

Public Relation Edge (do not over-claim)

Hugging Face — Co-author of 🤗 Datasets and 'NLP with Transformers' (engineering)NVIDIA — Acquirer in the ~$12.9B deal (ma_event)hf-nvidia-ma-2026 — Named at the HF All Hands (2026-09-03) (event)Hugging Face — Lead author of 🤗 Datasets (professional)Quentin Lhoest — Datasets maintainer (professional)

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📍 Zurich, Switzerland · 47.3769, 8.5417 — live geo-pin on the $UM-Radar vector map

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✓ https://github.com/huggingface/datasets

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