Tom Aarsen is a Hugging Face engineer and long-time open-source maintainer across Accelerate and ๐ค Datasets (GitHub: TomAarsen). 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 โ Open-source maintainer โ Accelerate/Datasets (GitHub: Netherlands) (engineering)NVIDIA โ Acquirer in the ~$12.9B deal (ma_event)hf-nvidia-ma-2026 โ Named at the HF All Hands (2026-09-03) (event)Hugging Face โ Maintainer โ Accelerate/Datasets (professional)Matthew Carrigan โ Training stack (professional)