Ollama is a business? They raised money? I thought it was just a useful open source product.

I wonder how they plan to monetize their users. Doesn't sound promising.

There are very few recently launched pure open source projects these days (most are at least running donation-ware models or funded by corporate backers), none in the AI space that I'm aware of.

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coolspot 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are former Docker employees running Docker playbook.

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Cheer2171 7 hours ago | parent [-]

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	▲	cristoperb 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ollama is a ycombinator startup, so I guess they have to find some roi at some point.[1] I personally found Ollama to be an easy way to try out local LLMs and appreciate them for that (and I still use it to download small models on my laptop and phone (via termux)), but I've long switched to llama.cpp + llama-swap[2] on my dev desktop. I download whatever ggufs I want from hugging face and just do `git pull` and `cmake --build build --config Release` from my llama.cpp directory whenever I want to update. 1: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama 2: https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap