Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.
No llama.cpp acknowledgement · Issue #3697 · ollama/ollama
What is the issue? This project is heavily dependent on llama.cpp, as seen in this search, but there is no mention of that in the readme. This creates some conflict and distaste for this project th...
Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models· Ollama Blog
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.
ollama doesn't distribute notice licenses in its release artifacts · Issue #3185 · ollama/ollama
What is the issue? ollama uses projects like llama.cpp as a statically linked dependency. The terms of the MIT license require that it distribute the copyright notice in both source and binary form...
Benjamin Marie (@bnjmnmarie)
A new alternative to Ollama: You can now run models directly through Unsloth (with Docker): https://docs.unsloth.ai/models/how-to-run-llms-with-docker It supports the same models as llama.cpp, which I guess means it runs on llama.cpp… But this way you don’t need to set up anything, if you already have Docker installed.
Using Ollama with Kilo Code | Run Local Models
Run local AI models with Ollama in Kilo Code for offline, private coding. Setup guide for VS Code and the CLI.
Ollama
Ollama is the easiest way to automate your work using open models, while keeping your data safe.
Update README.md to include acknowledgements to llama.cpp by survirtual · Pull Request #3700 · ollama/ollama
resolves #3697
Release v0.11.0 · ollama/ollama
Welcome OpenAI's gpt-oss models Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring its latest state-of-the-art open weight models to Ollama. The two models, 20B and 120B, bring a whole new local chat experie...
Researchers Find 175,000 Publicly Exposed Ollama AI Servers Across 130 Countries
Over 175,000 publicly exposed Ollama AI servers across 130 countries, with many enabling tool calling that allows code execution and LLMjacking abuse.
Dot Social
Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their work, their audience, and their livelihood. No one knows this better than Molly White, a researcher, writer and software engineer. This episode was recorded live at SXSW 2025.
Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet· Ollama Blog
Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small on-device models (such as Llama 3.2 with Ollama) collaborate with larger models in the cloud (such as GPT-4o).
When Machines Talk To Themselves
Drop me a 💡 on the linkedin post if this is interesting. OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Moltbot have sprung into view this week. Now they are having large-scale conversations and collaborations with each …
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Computer-Use Agents SOTA Challenge: Hack the North + Global Online | Cua Blog
Two-track competition for SOTA Computer-Use Agents: on-site Hack the North participants compete via OSWorld benchmark, while global participants build with Cua + Ollama.
OpenAI gpt-oss· Ollama Blog
Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.