Oussama Elachqar
Oussama Elachqar is currently Co-Founder at Oumi, a startup he founded and where he remains active. He has expertise in machine learning engineering, LLM research, and open source AI, with previous roles at Apple, Microsoft, and other technology companies.
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AI Startup Oumi, Founded by Microsoft and Google Veterans, Launches Platform for Custom AI Models
Seattle-based AI startup Oumi, founded by veterans from Microsoft and Google, launched a commercial platform focused on building custom AI models. The company aims to outperform general-purpose AI from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic by specializing in smaller, tailored models.
Former Microsoft engineers Koukoumidis and Elachqar launch Bellevue AI lab Oumi with $10M seed round
Bellevue-based AI lab Oumi, founded by former Microsoft engineers Manos Koukoumidis and Oussama Elachqar, launched with $10 million in seed funding to build a collaboration platform for AI researchers and developers and has partnered with academics from Caltech, MIT, UW and Stanford. The startup has 10 employees, one research fellow, dozens of founding scholars, and space in UW's Global Innovation Exchange in Bellevue.
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Oumi Co-Founder 2024–present · current
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Apple Staff Machine Learning Engineer 2022–2024 · past
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AI House Entrepreneur in Residence 2021 · past
Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science - Machine Learning · 2012–2014
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ENSEEIHT Master of Science (MS), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics · 2010–2013
