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How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI

How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI

Update: 2025-06-05
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Oumi Labs CEO Manos Koukoumidis lays out a vision for “unconditionally open” foundation models—where data, code, weights, and recipes are all transparent and reproducible—arguing this is the only path to production-grade, trustworthy AI. 

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How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI

How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI

Ben Lorica