Coding and Personal Agents with Ollama | LIVE145
Ollama is launching a privacy-centered cloud service so developers can run open models locally or in the cloud, with agents now its top use case.
“For Ollama, it's the easiest way for developers to get up and running with models, open models specifically, um, on locally and now in the cloud.”
At Microsoft Build, Ollama co-founder Michael Cheng and engineer Harsh Sarin discussed Ollama's expansion from local-only to a privacy-centered cloud offering, citing agents as their fastest-growing and now number-one use case. They emphasized that improved open models enable real agentic and coding tasks locally where privacy is critical. It signals momentum for the local/open-model ecosystem but is largely promotional rather than a major industry-defining announcement.