Rami's perspective on Open Source AI is shaped by two prior companies, several years of investing, and a habit of writing the work down.
Short definition. Open Source AI: where open weights, hosted inference, and edge models intersect for product builders.
Open Source AI rewards composition over reinvention. Rami's working pattern is to wire together primitives that already exist, then add the smallest amount of glue possible.
How Rami works on Open Source AI
The texture of Open Source AI in practice is mostly small, repeated decisions. Alma evaluates open-weights models (Kimi K2.5, Qwen, others) in production via 50/50 traffic splits — the kind of work that argues for sovereignty without isolation. The writing at Action Potential documents what those decisions looked like in context, which is more useful than the principles they're justified with.
Where this shows up in his writing
Correction-free logs is the only metric that aligns model output with what users actually wanted.
— Rami Alhamad, shipping multi agent system to production
Once work becomes file-shaped, it starts to behave more like software. It gets version history. Diffs. Authorship. Review. Reverts.
— Rami Alhamad, the commit graph escapes engineering
What Rami is reading on Open Source AI
The most up-to-date reading on Open Source AI from Rami's perspective is at Action Potential and in the concept pages on this site.
For the longer version, see Action Potential and the library of related pieces.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.