Emmanouil Koukoumidis

Emmanouil 'Manos' Koukoumidis is the CEO and co-founder of Oumi (Open Universal Machine Intelligence), a Seattle-area public benefit corporation building what he calls AI's 'Linux moment' - an unconditionally open platform where data, code, model weights and training recipes are all transparent and reproducible. A Princeton PhD who scaled Google Cloud's PaLM with a 300-person virtual team before it became Gemini, and who earlier built emotionally intelligent chatbots at Microsoft, Manos left big tech to give researchers and the wider world the truly open AI he believes they deserve. Oumi raised a $10M seed in early 2025 and launched its commercial custom-model platform in 2026.