[HN Gopher] Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
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       Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2024-05-21 10:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ollama.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ollama.com)
        
       | nwoli wrote:
       | Funny to compare the signal to noise ratio on this blog vs the
       | linked one to genkit
       | https://firebase.google.com/docs/genkit/plugins/ollama A giant
       | beta warning header and cookies banner on mobile. I'm seeing
       | about one line of actual relevant info before scrolling
        
       | _pdp_ wrote:
       | I am bias but even if I wasn't I would not touch Genkit. It is
       | interesting but in the hands of Google I feel that I will be left
       | in the cold after an year or two.
       | 
       | Besides, I am not sure what Genkit solves that cannot be done
       | with an external provider. Can someone comment who is close to
       | this technology?
        
         | isoprophlex wrote:
         | Isn't this basically a gpu backed vm running ollama, only
         | managed? Nothing some terraform/opentofu and a dockerfile can't
         | replace.
        
       | dangoodmanUT wrote:
       | so thaaats how ollama is going to make money
        
         | Havoc wrote:
         | They're not gonna make money. It's just a llamacpp wrapper so
         | functional zero moat
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | Let's count how many days until Google announces that it will be
       | shutdown?
        
       | aestetix wrote:
       | Google seems to be good at launching new things, but not good at
       | maintaining them. Not sure what causes this, but I imagine this
       | will be sent to the trash heap in a couple years like everything
       | else.
       | 
       | Maybe they could focus on improving their customer support
       | instead of announcing yet another useless widget to seem
       | relevant.
        
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