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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.
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.
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.
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.
Science-grounded
We uphold the highest standards of scientific rigor and factual accuracy, ensuring that our work is trustworthy and grounded in evidence.
OUR TEAM
Founded by leaders in GenAI
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
Jonathan Rosenbluth
Cofounder - Product & GTM
ex-Cohere (Product & GTM Leader) ex-McKinsey
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
Panos Achlioptas
Cofounder - Research
ex-Snap/Meta Stanford PhD
Michael Schuler
Cofounder - Linguist & UX
ex-Google (Gemini i18n) Harvard AM
Ciara Dinneen
Founding Member - Ops
ex-Laurel AI, Redpoint Ventures UCC BSc
Benjamin Feuer
Research Fellow
Ph.D candidate, NYU
David Stewart
Head of Field Engineering
ex-Cohere (Director of Solution Architecture)
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)
Dimitra Tsamopoulou
Ops
ex-Windermere (Operations)
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
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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.
Join our TeamOur Partners
Angel Investors
Clem Delangue
CEO, Hugging Face
Vipul Ved Prakash
CEO, together.ai
Ragavan Srinivasan
VP, Meta / Llama
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
CMU & VP, Meta / Llama