Making Frontier AI
truly open for all

We believe that AI will have a transformative impact on humanity. Developing it collectively in the open is the best path forward to ensure that it is done efficiently and responsibly.

We are committed to enabling the collaborative development of open source frontier AI while making it accessible to all.

By providing the safest, highest quality, and most flexible AI, we aspire to unlock positive impact for every individual, enterprise, and humanity overall.

Manos Koukoumidis

CEO — Oumi

Core Values

At Oumi, we are guided by a set of core values that define who we are and how we work:

Beneficial for All

We exist to advance AI research and develop solutions that benefit humanity. AI can be advanced faster and safer in the open, and should be accessible to all — we strive to enable that.

Customer-obsessed

We obsess over the needs of the enterprises and communities that rely on Oumi. We're committed to enabling them with the highest quality AI solutions, each and every time.

Exceptional Teammates

Working exceptionally well together and collaborating effectively is key to succeeding in our mission. We value individual results, but optimize for collective success.

Radical Ownership

We care deeply about delivering exceptional results with diligence and integrity. We focus on the work that matters most — experimenting, learning, and adapting quickly.

Science-grounded

We uphold the highest standards of scientific rigor and factual accuracy, ensuring that our work is trustworthy and grounded in evidence.

Founding team

Founded by leaders in AI

Oumi is built by a strong community and a core team of ML engineers and researchers that led the work for industry leading GenAI products (Google Gemini, Google AI Safety, Apple Intelligence, and many others).

Manos Koukoumidis

Cofounder - CEO

ex-Google (Cloud GenAI Lead)
Princeton PhD

Oussama Elachqar

Cofounder - Engineering

ex-Apple (Health foundation models)
GTech MSc

Matthew Persons

Cofounder - Engineering

ex-Google (Cloud PaLM & NL Lead)
Cornell BSc

William Zeng

Cofounder - Engineering

ex-Google (Cloud Gemini RAI Lead)
Stanford MSc

Jeremiah Greer

Cofounder - Research

ex-Google (Gemini Alignment)
UC MSc

Kostas Aisopos

Cofounder - Research

ex-Google (Gemini Alignment)
Princeton PhD

Mary Reagan

Head of Product

ex-DataRobot
Stanford PhD

Ciara Dinneen

Ops

ex-Laurel AI, Redpoint Ventures
UCC BSc

Benjamin Feuer

Research Fellow

PostDoc, Stanford

Stefan Webb

Developer Relations - Engineering

ex-Meta (Probability), ex-Twitter (Cortex), Oxford PhD

Ryan Arman

Engineering

ex-Google/Meta/Amazon
UBC PhD

Shang Hong Sim

Engineering

SUTD MEng (SUTD Global Distinguished Scholarship)

Min Song

Engineering

ex-Google, ex-Amazon

Ryan Lehman

Engineering

ex-Microsoft

Joel Quintana

Engineering

ex-Meta (Product)

Robin Walsh

Engineering

ex-Oracle, ex-Amazon

Vladimir Zotov

Engineering

Product Engineer

Konstantinos Anastasiou

Design

MA in Design, MBA

Dimitra Tsamopoulou

Ops

ex-Windermere (Operations)

Timothy Leffel

Research

ex-Amazon (Nova LLMs)
NYU PhD

Brian Nguyen

Engineering

ex-Google (Vertex AI, Colab)
UBC

Aniruddhan Ramesh

Engineering - Intern

UC CS

Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Founding Scholar

CMU

Larry Heck

Founding Scholar

Georgia Tech, ex-Microsoft, ex-Google, ex-Samsung SVP

Ameet Talwalkar

Founding Scholar

CMU
ex-Determined AI cofounder

Yulia Tsvetkov

Founding Scholar

University of Washington

Anima Anandkumar

Founding Scholar

Caltech, ex-NVIDIA Senior Director of Research

Sanjeev Arora

Founding Scholar

Princeton, PLI Director

He He

Founding Scholar

NYU

Junjie Hu

Founding Scholar

University of Wisconsin Madison

Georgia Gkioxari

Founding Scholar

Caltech
ex-Meta (FAIR)

Sergey Levine

Founding Scholar

UC Berkeley
ex-DeepMind

Saining Xie

Founding Scholar

NYU
ex-Meta (FAIR)

Joseph Gonzalez

Founding Scholar

Berkeley, LMSys.org
ex-Turi Founder

Danqi Chen

Founding Scholar

Princeton, PLI Associate Director

Christopher Potts

Founding Scholar

Stanford

Paul Pu Liang

Founding Scholar

MIT Media Lab and MIT EECS

Dan Roth

Founding Scholar

University of Pennsylvania, Oracle

Virginia Smith

Collaborator

CMU

Jakob Foerster

Collaborator

University of Oxford, Meta FAIR

Yuzhang Shang

Collaborator

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida (UCF)

Annie Hu

Advisor

VP of Product - Scale AI

Gur Kimchi

Advisor

Advisor/Board Member of VC-backed startups, ex-Amazon VP

Vinod Valloppillil

Advisor

Director of Product - Azure AI
ex-Google Cloud AI Head of Product

Bill MacCartney

Advisor

AI Fund Fellow, SignalFire CTO
ex-Cohere ML VP, Stanford

Rajan Sheth

Advisor - Fractional CMO

ex-Together.ai, ex-Cohere

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Help build the future of AI

We are looking for exceptional ML researchers, engineers, and product leaders who are passionate about open source, and building reliable, scalable AI systems.

Join us in making frontier AI more accessible and trustworthy.

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