Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

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Open-source AI tool Ollama has raised $65M in a Benchmark-backed round and grown to nearly 9M users. The project has amassed 176,000 GitHub stars and 17,000 forks by helping developers easily run AI models locally on their PCs. The funding signals strong investor interest in open-source local AI inference tooling.

• •Ollama raises $65M backed by Benchmark
• •Grown to nearly 9M users with 176K GitHub stars
• •Tool helps developers run AI models locally on PCs

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