Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support

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What changed

Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support May 20, 2024 At Google IO 2024, Google unveiled Firebase Genkit, featuring Ollama support for running Google’s open-source Gemma model on your local machine. Firebase Genkit is a new open-source framework for developers to build, deploy and monitor production-ready AI-powered apps. Create and initialize a new node.js project mkdir genkit-ollama cd genkit-ollama npm init genkit init Genkit will now be running on localhost:4000

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:

  • Welcome Gemma 2 - Google’s new open LLM
  • Welcome Gemma - Google’s new open LLM
  • OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama

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