Ollama Closes $65M Series B to Scale Local AI

Local AI startup Ollama announced a $65 million Series B funding round led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million. As a key infrastructure tool that helps developers run open-source large language models locally, Ollama's rapid growth highlights the accelerating commercialization of the open-source AI ecosystem.

Key Metrics and Business Progress

Official data reveals that Ollama has surpassed 9 million active developers (or builders), adding nearly a million new users weekly. Furthermore, the platform has cultivated an ecosystem of 67,000 integrations and successfully penetrated the enterprise market, being adopted internally by 85% of Fortune 500 companies.

Vision and Future Plans

The Ollama team emphasized their long-standing belief in open-source AI, a stance they maintained even when early market adoption was low. With this new funding, the company plans to scale its operations and expand the open-source model ecosystem. The team envisions a future where multiple models coexist and local and cloud-based AI run in parallel, aiming to evolve open-source models into AI that is fully owned and controlled by the users.

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