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Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by HumanOstrich »

apitman wrote: post #49
pentagrama wrote: post #44

Looks like a big pivot on target audience from developers to regular users, at least on the homepage https://ollama.com/ as a product. Before, it was all about the CLI versions of Ollama for devs, now it's not even mentioned. At the bottom of the blog post it says: > For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releases page. Nothing against that, just an observation. Previou…

Is there a way to get LM Studio to talk to remote OpenAI API servers and cloud providers?

LM Studio is for hosting/serving local LLMs. Its chat UI is secondary and is pretty limited.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by mchiang »

Retr0id wrote: post #35
ladberg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't comment on whether these particular pieces were generated, but models are certainly good enough now to handle these cases and more

Until now I've been able to reliably distinguish generated artwork from human authored artwork with ~90% accuracy. Of course, it's always getting better, but my initial research tells me the main logo has existed since Jan 2024: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2152 I don't think it was generated. (on the basis that this can't be some cutting-edge new model whose output I haven't seen yet)

One of the maintainers. The logo and all the illustrations are done by a human artist.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by behnamoh »

mchiang wrote: post #62
behnamoh wrote: post #41

Wow, is it a coincidence that every comment that says anything negative about ollama gets downvoted/flagged into oblivion? what is going on in this thread?

We don't have this kind of power, and in fact, most our posts gets deleted so we don't post. We do read comments and help if we can. Negative comments help us grow and make Ollama better any way. We can take harsh feedback to make Ollama better.

To be clear, I didn't meant you guys manipulate the comments. It was just weird seeing even @swyx's comment get that much downvotes.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by flashblaze »

apitman wrote: post #38

I've been on something of a quest to find a really good chat interface for LLMs. Most import feature for me is that I want to be able to chat with local models, remote models on my other machines, and cloud models (OpenAI API compatible). Anything that makes it easier to switch between models or query them simultaneously is important. Here's what I've learned so far: * Msty - my current favorite. Can do true simultan…

Thoughts about https://chorus.sh/

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by deadbabe »

apitman wrote: post #38

I've been on something of a quest to find a really good chat interface for LLMs. Most import feature for me is that I want to be able to chat with local models, remote models on my other machines, and cloud models (OpenAI API compatible). Anything that makes it easier to switch between models or query them simultaneously is important. Here's what I've learned so far: * Msty - my current favorite. Can do true simultan…

Once you use Open WebUI, your search will come to an end. Tread carefully.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by giantrobot »

redacted wrote: post #27
ashirviskas wrote: post #20

And why should anyone use it or ollama itself?

No one should use ollama. A cursory search of r/localllama gives plenty of occassions where they've proven themselves bad actors. Here's a 'fun' overview https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1kg20mu/so_why_... There are multiple (far better) options - eg LM studio if you want GUI, llama.cpp if you want the CLI that ollama ripped off. IMO the only reason ollama is even in the conversation is it was easy to get…

/r/LocalLlama is a very circle-jerky subreddit. There's a very heavy "I am new to GitHub and have a lot of say"[0] energy. This is really unfortunate because there's also a lot of people doing tons of good work there and posting both cool links and their own projects. The "just give me an EXE types" will brigade causes they do not understand and white knight projects and attack others for no informed logic reason. They're not really a good barometer for the quality of any project, on the whole.

[0] https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by alsetmusic »

This doesn't appear to indicate whether the model is running locally, so I assume it's not. I'll continue to run Ollama locally in my terminal on the rare occasions that I see a use for it.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by nocommandline »

apitman wrote: post #48
rkwz wrote: post #40

[Shameless Plug] I built my own Ollama macOS app written in SwiftUI: https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital Launches fast and weighs less than 2MB in size!

Kudos for making an effort to keep it small. Some of these Electron AppImages are 1GB+ which is pretty wild. How do you handle markdown rendering?

> Some of these Electron AppImages are 1GB+

I recently released an Electron App for Ollama [1] and it's nowhere close to 1GB (between 300 - 350MB). A 1GB App would be really big

1) https://ai.nocommandline.com/

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by mchiang »

alsetmusic wrote: post #77

This doesn't appear to indicate whether the model is running locally, so I assume it's not. I'll continue to run Ollama locally in my terminal on the rare occasions that I see a use for it.

the model is running locally - you can check by turning off the wifi.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by jadamson »

xpe wrote: post #66
behnamoh wrote: post #41

Wow, is it a coincidence that every comment that says anything negative about ollama gets downvoted/flagged into oblivion? what is going on in this thread?

I don't understand how you can know this, even if it is true. (I only see downvotes on my comments.)

Comments with negative scores appear greyed out.
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