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Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by pyaamb »

zishha1b0njq wrote: post #20
vivzkestrel wrote: post #6

- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

This post is empty of any relevant content. I wish HN would stop sharing drama-seeking posts, especially by anonymous authors, attacking the hard work of people. Are ollama's authors perfect? No, they are just humans. But many people find their work valuable and we should support Open Source. I can assure you that you won't like the world where nobody release Open Source projects anymore because of the constant negat…

Do you see any negativity towards llama.cpp? This isnt drama-seeking. The author makes very valid points.

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by pierotofy »

zishha1b0njq wrote: post #20
vivzkestrel wrote: post #6

- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

This post is empty of any relevant content. I wish HN would stop sharing drama-seeking posts, especially by anonymous authors, attacking the hard work of people. Are ollama's authors perfect? No, they are just humans. But many people find their work valuable and we should support Open Source. I can assure you that you won't like the world where nobody release Open Source projects anymore because of the constant negat…

Taking credit for other people's work while raising millions? Yeah, pretty bad and relevant.

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by thot_experiment »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #6

- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

Came here to post an anti-ollama rant, real glad this is already the top comment. Nature is healing.

It's not my favorite but we do have to be aggressive in fighting these gross attempts for vc-backed silicon valley non-contributors to exploit open source labor.

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by Krasnol »

zishha1b0njq wrote: post #20
vivzkestrel wrote: post #6

- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

This post is empty of any relevant content. I wish HN would stop sharing drama-seeking posts, especially by anonymous authors, attacking the hard work of people. Are ollama's authors perfect? No, they are just humans. But many people find their work valuable and we should support Open Source. I can assure you that you won't like the world where nobody release Open Source projects anymore because of the constant negat…

This anonymous author made some good points, supported by good sources.

It looks more like you're the anonymous author attacking the hard work of the author of this blog post.

The blog post alone has more relevance then the ad-post.

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

CharlesW wrote: post #8
intothemild wrote: post #5

This is all lovely and I wish them the best. But please don't use ollama, or their quants. Not only is the app itself slower than pure llamacpp. But their quants are often no where near the best. I really hope people start with something like unsloth, as their software and quants are really much better all around.

For anyone who may not be aware it exists: https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio

I really wish they would figure out a better way to ship it for Mac. Last time I tried it a few months ago, it spewed a bunch of stuff into the system's pip archive and broke other software.

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by trilogic »

How did they raise that amount of money if they are so hated, I see only bad comments everywhere about ollama. Not a fan of them myself, but they played a good part in local ai since the beginning. The investors screw everything: Ollama announced an $88 million financing on July 9, 2026. The named participants were:

Investment firms and organizations

Benchmark — represented by Peter Fenton Theory Ventures — Tomasz Tunguz 8VC — Alex Kolicich Y Combinator Garage Capital Pace Capital 49 Palms GTMFund

Individual investors

Solomon Hykes — Docker founder Aaron Katz — ClickHouse CEO Spencer Kimball — Cockroach Labs co-founder and GIMP co-creator Quinn Slack — Amp CEO Marianna Tessel — Cisco board member Michael Montano — former Twitter head of engineering Other unnamed angel investors >like lmstudio and google/alphabet maybe!

Investors are not free

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by el_io »

aceazzameen wrote: post #10
vivzkestrel wrote: post #6

- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

I don't use local models often enough, but this convinced me to uninstall ollama. Now I need to figure out which of the options at the end of that post is the best alternative for me.

llama.cpp?

Ollama is/was based on that.

Re: Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

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Post by kypro »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #6

- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

I see a lot of these "don't use [insert product]" posts and it's normally always BS about how some exec at the company has the wrong political views or upset some community who was the product by taking it in a different direction from what they wanted.

I think this is probably first time ever I read one of these and was convinced immediately that I should probably look into using something else.

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