Join us on Zoom to hear Dr. Emmanouil Koukoumidis discuss how Oumi is fostering open source frontier AI and broad collaboration across academia, industry, and the world.

The Imperative for Open Source Frontier AI - Oumi’s Platform & Strategy

Featuring Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis, CEO of Oumi PBC

WHAT: Free 45-minute event with a talk by Manos Koukoumidis

WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:30 PM

REMOTE: Online via Zoom

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This event is open to all, whether you are a part of the university community, industry, or the public.

Join the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) for a virtual event with Dr. Emmanouil Koukoumidis discussing the efforts that Oumi, alongside 20+ academics, recently started to put us on a better path by betting on and fostering open source frontier AI.

Dr. Koukoumidis believes that open source is the best path to developing the most advanced, trusted, and versatile AI; the AI that would unlock industry applications and truly empower the sciences. Unfortunately though, frontier AI has become over the last 2+ years increasingly closed giving rise to significant concerns and risks.

Learn how Oumi empowers sciences, industries and even AgTech hackathons! To succeed, broad collaboration is needed across academia, industry, and across the world.

Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis is the CEO of Oumi PBC focusing on democratizing foundation model research and development. He previously led the science and engineering for Google Cloud’s Natural Language Services while also bootstrapping and leading the Google Cloud GenAI (PaLM/Gemini) efforts across a 300+ v-team covering model quality, Responsible AI, and all related infrastructure from inception all the way to General Availability. He has been working on GenAI systems since 2016 at Microsoft and then Meta. He holds a PhD from Princeton University where he set the early foundations for edge AI and a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens. His research career includes positions at MIT, Microsoft Research, SMART (Singapore) and CERN. His research has been featured in top-tier conferences, journals and news articles receiving a Best Paper Award and other distinctions with over 5,000 citations.

This event is being offered in a hybrid format with participants in the AIFS x Sony AI AgTech Challenge attending in person and the public joining virtually.