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Deepseek R1 and OpenThinker are two more examples. There’s also SmolLM, which I believe also open sources its training data and ensures proper licensing for it.

I’m keeping an eye on Ollama’s service offerings - I don’t think they’re in enshittification territory yet, but I definitely share the concern.

I still don’t believe the other LLM engines out there have reached an equivalent ease of use compared to Ollama, and I still recommend it for now. If nothing else, it can be a stepping stone to other solutions for some.

In case you’re not aware, there are a decent number of open weight (and some open source) large language models.

The Ollama project makes it very approachable to download and use these models.