Open-source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M to grow its platform

Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised ...
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4 open-source tools that can replace your Claude subscription (and sometimes outperform it)

I ditched my Claude subscription for these 4 open-source tools—and they're actually better.

I self-hosted PewDiePie's Odysseus AI workspace, and it's surprisingly brilliant

As such, Odysseus is geared towards self-hosting your own AI models as well, ensuring that absolutely no data leaves your ...

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

A year ago the Ryzen AI Halo, AMD's tiny new AI workstation, would have offered devs and machine learning enthusiasts an ...
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Ollama is the easiest way to start local LLMs, but these 6 alternatives are also worth trying

Beyond Ollama - these LLM tools are worth switching to, depending on what you actually need.
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OpenAI Codex can now run fully locally via Ollama. Steps to run gpt-oss with zero API costs and a cost comparison with Claude Code

OpenAI's coding CLI, "Codex," now supports running models locally via Ollama. Since you can run code generation entirely on your own Mac or PC without sending data to the cloud, you eliminate API ...
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Four agentic AI memory systems for smarter LLMs

These third-party projects greatly expand the ways agents and LLMs can draw on facts, documents, and conversations to deliver ...

Ollama Runs 32B Local AI Models on a $599 Mac via Quantization for Free

Learn how to run a 32B local LLM on a $599 Mac Mini using Ollama. This setup reduces cloud AI costs while maintaining strong ...