Álvaro Somoza is a Hugging Face ML engineer with public work on audio and multimodal pipelines (GitHub: OzzyGT). 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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Hugging Face — ML Engineer — audio & multimodal (GitHub: OzzyGT) (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 — Audio & multimodal engineering (professional)Apolinário Passos — ML for art & creativity (professional)