Local-first tool to pull, run, and manage open-weight models with a simple CLI/API—popular for offline dev, privacy-sensitive drafts, and quick experiments.
Ollama packages models and runtimes so engineers can use a simple ollama run workflow without hand-building CUDA stacks. Under the hood it leverages llama.cpp-style efficient inference on consumer GPUs and CPUs.
Limits
Not a full multi-tenant serving platform by itself; for shared high-QPS production you often graduate to vLLM, TGI, or NVIDIA Triton. Pair with policy for updates, logging, and PII.