Note to self, Enshittification ahead. Don't use any ollama services unless it's calling an industry standard api.
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.
I'm going to uninstall Ollama.
Ollama is/was based on that.
A year and still no implementation for such a basic need as offloading MoE layers onto the CPU selectively. On llama.cpp I can get models like Qwen 35BA3B running partially on gpu/cpu with 40t/s on a laptop thanks to --n-cpu-moe but on this VC funded joke it would be simply unusable. I can't quite understand how you make a wrapper so much worse than the code you're ripping out.
>This funding is fuel for what’s ahead. Ollama sits front and center in the open model ecosystem
No.
Then put those LLMs to work and build an open source alternative to everything that Ollama is doing.
After all, open source is a pricing weapon to race everything to $0.
Georgi Gerganov, the author of llama.cpp, is the real hero here.
Were they so enraptured with the “docker for LLMs” line?
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
I will be curious to see if their subscription ever supports the ~3T open weights models announced this week.
The principle of running locally is that you’re not in the cloud.
https://www.slashdata.co/post/global-developer-population-tr...
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 negativity.
The llama.cpp authorized ollama to do this... Unintentionally.
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.
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.
Looks like it's their second time, as Kitematic was a very thin wrapper over the Docker CLI.
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.
Since it pivoted, I imagine the story they are telling is the usage. But you can add to that Peter Fenton has had incredible success in commercial open source (Docker-ish, Elastic, JBoss, CockroachDB, TimeScaleDB, and if you include Benchmark there is Elastic, Confluent, etc.) so a bunch of these people are probably trying to ride the Peter Fenton/Benchmark train. My guess is that's what Theory is doing.
Investors are not free but they are very hype driven. There are < 10 investors who are truly experts in open source in my opinion in the market (and maybe < 5.) It's a really wacky cadence and I would argue there are different types of OSS businesses, which makes it even more difficult to be an expert. It's something I struggle with personally investing in OSS -- I think I understand the likely motion for an OSS startup and then > 50% of the time I am wrong.
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