ML Engineer (ex-Paperspace); Keras contributor & open-source educator
Sayak Paul is a Hugging Face ML engineer (ex-Paperspace), long-time Keras contributor and author of widely-used transfer-learning and vision-transformer tutorials — a bridge between the TF/Keras world and open weights. 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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