Easy and Accessible LLM Fine Tuning with Manos Koukoumidis and Oumi | Agents By the Bay

While having access to massive models like ChatGPT or Opus is impressive, sometimes they aren't the best tool for the job. As we learn on the Agents by the Bay podcast with Oli Dinov featuring Manos Koukoumidis from Oumi, specialized tasks often call for specialized models. Manos Cucumides Position: CEO at Oumi (Open Universal Machine Intelligence) https://oumi.ai/ Background: Former Google AI Engineering Lead, startup experience, tenure at Meta and Microsoft contributing to AI developments. Princeton PhD. Manos's journey through ech giants, notably spearheading AI initiatives like Google's Palm (later known as Gemini), provides him with firsthand understanding of both the potentials and limitations of large models. the NYT recently turned to Oumi to fact-check Google’s AI Overviews https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html