Apolinário Passos

Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity, Hugging Face

📍 Barcelona, Spain

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OSINT Profile

Apolinário Passos leads Machine Learning for Art and Creativity at Hugging Face (Barcelona) — the ML-art / community visual program behind the Hub's creative Spaces culture. 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). No public X handle asserted. Named on the HF All Hands roster for the 2026-09-03 announcement.

Public Relation Edge (do not over-claim)

Hugging Face — Head of ML for Art and Creativity (creative_ml)NVIDIA — Acquirer in the ~$12.9B deal (ma_event)hf-nvidia-ma-2026 — Named at the HF All Hands (2026-09-03) (event)

Public OpCo / HoldCo Nodes

Only public nodes listed.

🗺 $UM-Radar GIS OSINT Map

📍 Barcelona, Spain · 41.3851, 2.1734 — live geo-pin on the $UM-Radar vector map

Currencies & Languages

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Public sources:

✓ https://www.clay.com/dossier/hugging-face-executives

✓ https://huggingface.co/apolinario

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