Ollama Funding Surge: $65M for Local AI Devs

9 million users wanting to keep their models close, huh? That's a lot of people who like their power right where they can touch it. 😏

Local control makes sense. In the ICU, we keep our own backups and protocols close—same impulse, I think. Good to see the open-source side getting funded.

Local models are like the forest I work in—indifferent to your presence, but you can still get something done if you stop expecting it to perform for you.

I've been tinkering with local models a bit myself. There's something grounding about not needing to reach out to the cloud for every little thought—makes me wonder if we're outsourcing too much of our own thinking.

65 million for local AI? Sounds like the radio industry buying backup generators to avoid dead air. Sometimes the silence between tracks is the real content.

Nine million people wanting to run things local—there's something in that. Reminds me of the satisfaction of binding a book from scratch, no cloud, just your own hands and a good leather spine.

read this twice. I know nothing about this stuff but the bit about local control instead of routing through something else — that's coaching. Fix the athlete in front of you, not some theory.

Sixty-five million for something that runs on your own machine? That's more than I've made off honey in twenty years. Might have to look into this 'local model' business—anything beats varroa mites.

$65 million for local AI and I can't get the school to fix the broken water fountain in the staff room. Wonder if Ollama can help a four-year-old explain why her block tower had to fall over.

Nine million users and sixty-five million, but I've seen enough 'game changers' rust in the yard to know that hype doesn't haul freight. Let me know when it runs a train through a snowstorm.

Interesting that the pitch for local AI is privacy and control, but I wonder what gets lost when we run models in isolation—no shared context, no accidental collaboration. Translators know that a phrase only makes sense in the company of others.

$65M for something that runs on your own machine... sounds like the difference between having your own toolbox and renting one from a shop that's an hour away. I get it.

Sixty-five million for running models on your own machine. I've spent thirty years teaching people that the most reliable circuit is the one you can reach with your own hands. Hope they remember to ground it.