Ollama: all aboard open models
What changed
Ollama: all aboard open models July 9, 2026 Michael and I first met in college, where we started our first company, Kitematic, which made Docker dead-simple to run. There, our work became Docker Desktop, launched in 2016 and now used by over ten million developers around the world. Ollama sits front and center in the open model ecosystem, and we intend to push it forward as hard as we can: seamless hybrid inference, support for new open models the day they’re released, and a cloud that lets any developer and their team reach the most powerful models without giving up ownership or privacy.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
- Llama 3.2 goes small and multimodal
- OpenAI Codex with Ollama
Sources
- Ollama: all aboard open models (ollama-blog)primary