Open frontier models · Bellevue, US · founded 2024

Oumi: who founded it, who funds it

Oumi is a Bellevue open-weight AI lab founded in 2024 by Manos Koukoumidis, who came from DeepMind. What it is building: an open platform for building fully owned foundation models; a public-benefit company. No funding round has been disclosed. It releases open-weight models.

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Founders: Manos Koukoumidis (ex-Google DeepMind)
Founders from: ex-Google DeepMind
Location: Bellevue, US (North America)
Valuation: ·
Raised: · disclosed
Investors: ·
What ships: Open model

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News

Mar 10, 2026
Accelerate custom LLM deployment: Fine-tune with Oumi and deploy to Amazon Bedrock | Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 29, 2025
Startup backed by top universities aims to deliver fully open AI development platform

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Jan 29, 2025
Former Microsoft engineers launch AI lab with $10M in funding

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