The software that controls the front-end has enormous value, it becomes the central point and brand to manage and self-host LLMs that's used to manage 100 GB ca

The software that controls the front-end has enormous value, it becomes the central point and brand to manage and self-host LLMs that's used to manage 100 GB catalog of models which acts like a moat inhibiting switching to alternatives. Awareness and user-base are the hardest things to obtain with new Software products and it has both - right now it doesn't look it's monetizing its user base, but it could easily attract millions in VC funding to spin off a company to sell support contracts and "higher value" SaaS hosting or enterprise management features. Whilst it's now a UX friendly front-end for llama.cpp, it's also working on adding support for other backends like MLX [1]. [1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1730 https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1730