
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face
Thomas Wolf is co-founder & Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face — the scientific lead behind the Transformers library and open-weights research (École Polytechnique / Saclay; ex-Naver Labs). 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 engineering hub. Named on the HF All Hands roster for the 2026-09-03 announcement.
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📍 Paris, France · 48.8566, 2.3522 — live geo-pin on the $UM-Radar vector map
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