[Maxious]

They spent several years in stealth mode but the initial release was llama.cpp.

Ollama v0.0.1 "Fast inference server written in Go, powered by llama.cpp" https://github.com/ollama/ollama/tree/v0.0.1

[em-bee]

They spent several years in stealth mode

doing what?

trying to build themselves what llama.cpp ended up doing for them?

[saghul]

I asked myself the same question. Some other commenter mentioned above they started with some Kubernetes infrastructure thing and they pivoted later.