# The Power of Community in AI Development with Oumi

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Podcast: [AI Engineering Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-engineering-podcast)
Published: 2025-03-16T23:37:27+00:00
Episode link: https://www.aiengineeringpodcast.com/oumi-open-source-foundation-model-framework-episode-48
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Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis, CEO of Oumi, about his vision for an open platform for building, evaluating, and deploying AI foundation models. Manos shares his journey from working on natural language AI services at Google Cloud to founding Oumi with a mission to advance open-source AI, emphasizing the importance of community collaboration and accessibility. He discusses the need for open-source models that are not constrained by proprietary APIs, highlights the role of Oumi in facilitating open collaboration, and touches on the complexities of model development, open data, and community-driven advancements in AI. He also explains how Oumi can be used throughout the entire lifecycle of AI model development, post-training, and deployment. Announcements Hello and welcome to the AI Engineering Podcast, your guide to the fast-moving world of building scalable and maintainable AI systems Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Manos Koukoumidis about Oumi, an all-in-one production-ready open platform to build, evaluate, and deploy AI models Interview Introduction How did you get involved in machine learning? Can you describe what Oumi is and the story behind it? There are numerous projects, both full suites and point solutions, focused on every aspect of "AI" development. What is the unique value that Oumi provides in this ecosystem? You have stated the desire for Oumi to become the Linux of AI development. That is an ambitious goal and one that Linux itself didn't start with. What do you see as the biggest challenges that need addressing to reach a critical mass of adoption? In the vein of "open source" AI, the most notable project that I'm aware of that fits the proper definition is the OLMO models from A…

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