Why Open-Source AI Is the Future and needs its ’Linux Moment’? | Manos Koukoumidis

Manos is the CEO of Oumi, a platform focused on open sourcing the entire lifecycle of foundation and large models. Prior to that he was at Google leading efforts on developing large language models within Cloud services. He also has experience working at Facebook on AR/VR projects and at Microsoft’s cloud division developing machine learning based services. Manos received his PhD in computer engineering from Princeton University and has extensive hands-on experience building and deploying models at large scale. Time stamps of the conversation00:00:00 Highlights00:01:20 Introduction00:02:08 From Google to Oumi00:08:58 Why big tech models cannot beat ChatGPT00:12:00 Future of open-source AI00:18:00 Performance gap between open-source and closed AI models00:23:58 Parts of the AI stack that must remain open for innovation00:27:45 Risks of open-sourcing AI00:34:38 Current limitations of Large Language Models00:39:15 Deepseek moment 00:44:38 Maintaining AI leadership - USA vs. China00:48:16 Oumi 00:55:38 Open-sourcing a model with AGI tomorrow, or wait for safeguards?00:58:12 Milestones in open-source AI01:02:50 Nurturing a developers community01:06:12 Ongoing research projects01:09:50 Tips for AI enthusiasts 01:13:00 Competition in AI nowadays More about Manos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/koukoumidis/And Oumi: https://github.com/oumi-ai/oumiAbout the Host:Jay is a PhD student at Arizona State University working on improving AI for medical diagnosis and prognosis. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahjay22/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaygshah22Homepage: https://jaygshah.github.io/ for any queries.Stay tuned for upcoming webinars!***Disclaimer: The information in this video represents the views and opinions of the speaker and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of any institution. It does not constitute an endorsement by any Institution or its affiliates of such video content.***