Manos Koukoumidis, co-founder of Oumi, a “fully open source” AI modeling company. It was launched 8 weeks ago by ex-Google and Apple engineers. He discusses how critical accessibility is for the AI industry, both for creators and consumers. He argues that open source and transparency is the future, calling it “the most reasonable thing we can do” for scientists and others. He gives Oumi use cases, including search, chatbots, and custom models.