Local AI
3 published articles
Funding round
Ollama raised $88 million to make open models boring. That is the whole point.
Ollama raised $88 million from Benchmark and Docker founder Solomon Hykes to scale its open-model platform, now used by 8.9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500. The bet: make local AI ownership as boringly easy as Docker made containers.
2026-07-09
Local AI
Ollama 0.30 just made local AI cheaper than cloud inference for more people
Ollama 0.30 boosts NVIDIA inference by up to 20%, enables Vulkan GPU support by default for AMD and Intel devices, and expands GGUF model compatibility, including fine-tuned models from Hugging Face and support for tool-calling with coding agents.
2026-06-05
Open-source framework
Stanford just made local AI agents work, and made the cloud look optional
OpenJarvis 1.0 from Stanford's Hazy Research and Scaling Intelligence labs runs personal AI agents locally via Ollama, with cloud access as an optional add-on. It ships with presets for morning briefings, cross-document research, and local code assistants, all while tracking energy cost and latency beside accuracy.
2026-05-28