Ollama raises $65M to bring local AI to 9 million developers

Ollama raised $65M in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures. The open-source AI platform is used by 8.9 million developers worldwide.

The post Exclusive: Gonka Co-Creators on AI Compute, Blockchain, and the Future of Decentralized AI appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. CoinEdition spoke exclusively with Gonka co-creators David and Daniil Liberman ahead of WebX Japan 2026, where the project will participate as a Sponsor. During the interview, they shared their views on decentralized AI infrastructure, the growing concentration of AI computing power, blockchain’s role in addressing those challenges, and Gonka’s long-term vision for open AI compute. 1. Gonka is joining WebX Japan 2026 as a Platinum Sponsor. What made this event the right place to showcase your vision, and what are you most looking forward to during the conference? We have always believed that smaller countries do not need to beat the US or China one by one. They need equal access through shared infrastructure and open protocols. Asia is deeply aware of this dynamic. WebX brings together the exact kind of global builders who recognize that AI is pure in

This article covers the full path from zero to a running private research assistant on Telegram, including configuring the context length correctly, connecting the channel, enabling web search, and deploying it headlessly in Docker.

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvements based on feedback from developers. The company says it's capable of more advanced coding, including detection and fixing of complex bugs; better supports end-to-end agentic workflows across a range of apps, including multi-agent systems; and has native multimodal perception across images, videos, and documents. The Muse Spark 1.1 launch fol … Read the full story at The Verge.

The post Exclusive: Gonka Founders on AI Compute, Blockchain, and the Future of Decentralized AI appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. CoinEdition spoke exclusively with Gonka founders David and Daniil Liberman ahead of WebX Japan 2026, where the project will participate as a Sponsor. During the interview, the founders shared their views on decentralized AI infrastructure, the growing concentration of AI computing power, blockchain’s role in addressing those challenges, and Gonka’s long-term vision for open AI compute. 1. Gonka is joining WebX Japan 2026 as a Platinum Sponsor. What made this event the right place to showcase your vision, and what are you most looking forward to during the conference? We have always believed that smaller countries do not need to beat the US or China one by one. They need equal access through shared infrastructure and open protocols. Asia is deeply aware of this dynamic. WebX brings together the exact kind of global builders who recognize that AI is pure

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Databento's funding boost could accelerate the convergence of crypto and traditional finance, enhancing market efficiency and data accessibility. The post Databento raises $97M to bring institutional-grade market data to crypto and TradFi traders appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, pitching the model to developers and enterprises trying to control the rising cost of AI-assisted software development. In a statement, the company said the model is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. It said the model is built for coding and agentic work, runs at 80 tokens per second, and uses fewer tokens than comparable models on some software engineering tasks. Grok 4.5 is available through the SpaceXAI console and Grok Build. It is also available in Cursor, the AI coding tool made by Anysphere, giving SpaceXAI a route into a development environment already used by programmers rather than only competing through an API. SpaceXAI said EU availability is expected in mid-July. In June, SpaceX, which owns SpaceXAI, said it was buying Anysphere, the startup behind Cursor, in a deal aimed at strengthening its position in enterprise AI tools. In a separate statement, Cursor said that Grok 4.5 was trained jointly with Spac