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[Archimedes Talks Series] The Imperative for Open Source Frontier AI - Oumi’s Platform & Strategy.

Dates
2025-02-13 16:30 - 18:00
Venue
Microsoft Teams Meeting

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


Speakers: Emmanouil Koukoumidis(CEO of Oumi PBC) and Oussama Elachqar(Member of Technical Staff at Oumi PBC)


Abstract: 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. I will discuss 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.  Lastly, I will make a call to action. To succeed, broad collaboration is needed across academia, the industry, and across the world. Greece could be a key player and leader in this.

Short Bios:

Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis is the CEO of Oumi PBC focusing on democratizing foundation model research and development. He had 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 4,000 citations.


Oussama Elachqar is a Member of Technical Staff at Oumi PBC, where he’s focusing on democratizing foundation model research and development. He holds an M.Sc. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from INP-ENSEEIHT. Prior to Oumi, he led the vertical foundation model efforts for Healthcare at Apple, working all across the stack from pre-training, post-training, safety and performance optimizations. His expertise in generative AI systems spans nearly a decade, and his career includes leadership roles in Machine Learning at Microsoft, AI2 and Twitter, where he successfully delivered large-scale AI research projects to production. He specializes in scaling deep learning model training across HPC clusters and brings extensive experience in enterprise-scale AI deployment.


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Vision

To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science

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Mission

To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world

 

Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 8 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

 
 

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The project “ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms” with code OPS 5154714 is implemented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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