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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
July 9, 2026
Ollama, the open source AI developer tool for running models locally on PCs, raised $65 million and says it has grown to nearly 9 million users. The tool has also become a major developer project with 176,000 GitHub stars and nearly 17,000 forks, highlighting strong demand for easy local AI deployment.
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
Source: techcrunch.com