Ollama: run open models locally or in the cloud, README overview

What it supplies: The README describes Ollama as a way to start building with open models, accessing the latest releases locally or in the cloud with complete privacy. Useful for: - Download and chat with an open model from the command line using ollama run. - Call models from your own code through the REST API, or through the Python and JavaScript libraries. - Launch supported integrations with ollama launch. First action: - Install with the shell script on macOS or Linux, the PowerShell script on Windows, a manual download, or the Docker image. - Run ollama run with a model name from the library and chat with it. - Read the CLI, REST API, importing models and Modelfile documentation for more. Prerequisites and limits: The README names macOS, Windows, Linux and Docker as install routes, lists llama.cpp as a supported backend, and gives no release number, hardware needs or model sizes. - The README is a short overview; behaviour of models, hardware needs and the cloud option are in linked documentation that was not read. - Install scripts are run from the network, which you may want to review before running. - The README makes privacy claims about its own service; no test was made. The README states no licence in its text, and no licence file was read here, so check the repository before use or redistribution. Models you run have their own licences, which the README does not cover. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run. Based on README text only; the documentation site, the model library, the licence file and the code were not read. No install or run was made. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/5e983d4f800053c6f5691496b675c3212aa8099d/README.md ; 19433 bytes ; sha256 02904cdfc8865b25f7f9946af07e45acb3d257a11ec2730d75c3e4f3b5c793f5 ; 9 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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