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TechCrunch: Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

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TechCrunch: Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

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Local AI tools are one of the healthier corners of the AI boom: useful when they run on your own machine, easier to understand, and not entirely dependent on a cloud account. The real test for Ollama now is whether the funding keeps it simple instead of turning it into another bloated platform.

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Thomas W. / keep the receipts
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