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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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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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Archimedes Workshop on Dialect NLP

Archimedes Workshop on Dialect NLP

Upcoming workshop on Dialect NLP on “Standardization and Variation for Dialect Varieties with Universal Dependencies as an Application Framework” coming up. We are excited to announce that the Dialect NLP team at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, is organizing a workshop in collaboration with the MaiNLP Research Lab at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich. Workshop details:Workshop info: UniDive WG1 Workshop on Dialect Varieties Dates: September 5–6, 2025 Location: LMU Munich Funded by: UniDive – Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology Archimedes: Dialect NLP and Linguistic Diversity At Archimedes, our Dialect NLP team focuses on the intersection of AI and linguistic diversity, with an emphasis on under-resourced and endangered language varieties, both Greek and non-Greek. Our research includes:   • Dialectal speech-to-text and morphosyntactic modeling  • Dialect-to-standard normalization for Greek varieties   • Intra-dialectal variation analysis   • A critical perspective on annotation frameworks like Universal Dependencies (UD), especially when applied to non-standard or endangered varieties Our resources cover:   • Standard Modern Greek: GUD Treebank   • Greek dialects: Cretan, Messinian, Lesbian, Cypriot, Griko/Greko, Aperathitika   • Non-Greek varieties spoken in Greece: Pomak, Arvanitika All datasets, models, and tools we develop are freely available to the research community. About Our Collaborators at MaiNLP (LMU Munich) The MaiNLP Research Lab at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich conducts research in Natural Language Processing, combining computer science, linguistics, and cognitive science. Their focus is on human-facing NLP: developing models that are robust to variation, fair, and reflective of human annotation diversity. MaiNLP is also leading the ERC Consolidator Grant project DIALECT, which explores natural language understanding for non-standard languages and dialects—making them an ideal partner in our shared mission to design NLP systems that work for all language varieties. Workshop Goals This workshop will:   • Document current practices in dialectal UD treebanks (e.g., orthographic/phonological variation, lemmatization, interference)   • Identify gaps in annotation and processing across dialects   • Develop shared methodologies for handling variation, improving consistency, and enabling knowledge transfer   • Foster community engagement with researchers working on under-resourced dialects and less-studied language families   • Ground discussions in theoretical insights from Plank (2016): What to do about non-standard language in NLP It is an opportunity to reflect on how annotation frameworks and tools serve—or fall short of serving— dialectal and endangered varieties, and how AI can support documentation, analysis, and preservation of linguistic diversity. We look forward to sharing our findings and engaging with colleagues working on inclusive, culturally informed, and variation-aware NLP. Stay tuned for more updates!

Archimedes and the Biomedical Research Foundation Share Latest Findings in AI and Medicine

Archimedes and the Biomedical Research Foundation Share Latest Findings in AI and Medicine

Archimedes and the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens successfully hosted a special collaborative session at the Panhellenic Working Group Seminars of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology. This session focused on innovative applications of artificial intelligence in medicine, with a particular emphasis on advancements in cardiology. Held on Friday, February 7, 2025, in Room MC2 of the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, the event brought together leading experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming cardiovascular medicine.

Archimedes Reaches Milestone of 200 Publications

Archimedes Reaches Milestone of 200 Publications

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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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