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

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

TechCrunch AI· Julie Bort·Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC

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