# Ollama

> Ollama is a Palo Alto company building tools to download, run and manage open AI models on personal computers and through its hosted cloud. Its free, MIT-licensed runtime, desktop app and developer APIs serve developers, researchers and teams; paid cloud plans supply larger models and shared administration.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Founders:** Jeffrey Morgan (Co-founder and CEO), Michael Chiang (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Ollama runtime and model library, Python and JavaScript libraries, Ollama desktop app, Ollama Cloud, ollama launch
- **Notable:** Reported $88 million in cumulative funding in July 2026., Reported 8.9 million monthly active developers in July 2026., Reported usage within 85% of Fortune 500 companies in July 2026.

## Products & services

- **Ollama runtime and model library** — MIT-licensed command-line runtime and model management with a local API for macOS, Windows and Linux.
- **Python and JavaScript libraries** — Language clients for integrating applications with the Ollama API.
- **Ollama desktop app** — macOS and Windows chat interface with model downloads, file attachments and supported image inputs.
- **Ollama Cloud** — Hosted open-model inference accessible from familiar tools and APIs; paid usage credits, subscriptions and team plans.
- **ollama launch** — Command to configure and start supported coding tools with local or hosted models.
- **Decision-model support** — Local API support for Jev-style classification, choices and scores with option probabilities.

## Achievements

- Reported $88 million in cumulative funding in July 2026.
- Reported 8.9 million monthly active developers in July 2026.
- Reported usage within 85% of Fortune 500 companies in July 2026.
- Approximately 182,000 GitHub stars at research time; a changing community-interest metric.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Improved GGUF compatibility through llama.cpp and continued MLX performance work on Apple Silicon.
- **2026-07** — Announced $65 million Series B and $88 million raised in total.
- **2026-08** — Introduced per-token cloud plans with monthly usage credits after feedback on GPU-time billing.
- **2026-09** — Added Jev-style decision-model support on September 29.

## Links

- Website: https://ollama.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ollama/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ollama
- GitHub: https://github.com/ollama

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Last updated: 2026-10-01