ML Course co-author; education engineering (Hugging Face)
Simon Brandeis is a Hugging Face engineer and co-author of the free ๐ค Machine Learning Course โ the community's standard intro to training models with open libraries. 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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