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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 p

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.

coolspot 1y ago
They are former Docker employees running Docker playbook.
- Cheer2171 1y ago
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  - cristoperb 1y ago
    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 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama 2: https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap
blihp 1y ago
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.
- brabel 1y ago
  Well the real open source project is llama.cpp which Ollama basically wrapped and made a nice interface on top of. Now they do more things as they want to be a real business, but llama.cpp is now doing most things people wanted from something like ollama, like serving a REST API compatible with OpenAPI, downloading and managing local LLMs… while remaining an actual open source project without VC money as far as I know.
  - cantor_S_drug 1y ago
    https://codingwithintelligence.com/p/meta-gets-behind-open-source-large https://codingwithintelligence.com/p/meta-gets-behind-open-s... This is a new umbrella project for llama.cpp and whisper.cpp. The author, Georgi Gerganov, also announced he’s forming a company for the project as he raised money from Nat Friedman (CEO GitHub) and Daniel Gross (ex-YC AI, ex-Apple ML). Not sure if this is just a good faith support.
lynnharry 1y ago
Until I saw your reply I had thought this post is about OpenAI lol.
Havoc 1y ago
The launched a hosted platform a while back

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.

coolspot 1y ago

They are former Docker employees running Docker playbook.

Cheer2171 1y ago
[flagged]
- cristoperb 1y ago
  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 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama 2: https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap

blihp 1y ago

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.

brabel 1y ago
Well the real open source project is llama.cpp which Ollama basically wrapped and made a nice interface on top of. Now they do more things as they want to be a real business, but llama.cpp is now doing most things people wanted from something like ollama, like serving a REST API compatible with OpenAPI, downloading and managing local LLMs… while remaining an actual open source project without VC money as far as I know.
- cantor_S_drug 1y ago
  https://codingwithintelligence.com/p/meta-gets-behind-open-source-large https://codingwithintelligence.com/p/meta-gets-behind-open-s... This is a new umbrella project for llama.cpp and whisper.cpp. The author, Georgi Gerganov, also announced he’s forming a company for the project as he raised money from Nat Friedman (CEO GitHub) and Daniel Gross (ex-YC AI, ex-Apple ML). Not sure if this is just a good faith support.

lynnharry 1y ago

Until I saw your reply I had thought this post is about OpenAI lol.

Havoc 1y ago

The launched a hosted platform a while back