Comment by asim

Makes total sense. You cannot be constrained by the CLI when do much of what models do is multimodal and graphical. I don't think this dilutes their efforts in running the models or the CLI. In fact it's a huge enhancement and helps them penetrate the enterprise market in the long term. And the reality is, when you take VC funding for an open source tool, your customer basis is going to be the enterprise and your inevitable goal is to become a profitable business. Do not let any of the delusions of Docker fool you. Build a thing, take VC money, you need to return that investment with profit. Unfortunately free things and Dev centric tooling often make it very difficult to establish that business model. So for Ollama to take this UI approach potentially let's them then monetize a lot of things around the GUI and leave the CLI tool free.