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Jeffrey Morgan

Co-founder & CEO, Ollama

Search every verified Jeffrey Morgan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jeffrey Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Ollama, has recently discussed the growing adoption of open-source AI models in enterprise settings. He stated that over 85% of Fortune 500 companies use Ollama's platform, and he attributed this shift to factors including cost, privacy, and control. Morgan said that open models have reached parity with frontier closed models faster than he expected, and he predicted that the majority of tokens used within businesses will eventually go through open models, even if they account for a smaller share of AI budgets. Morgan also addressed the hardware changes enabling local AI deployment, noting that laptops with high memory capacities and new hardware instructions can now run models at data center speeds. He described Ollama's growth from a two-week experiment into widely used software, and he emphasized the importance of curation in the fragmented open-model landscape. Additionally, Morgan discussed the role of coding agents and long-horizon tasks in driving demand for open models, and he mentioned that Ollama is hiring as it works to build an "open Anthropic" experience with open models.

Recent appearances

  • Why Fortune 500 Companies Are Quietly Switching to Open Models

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 This Week in AI and This Week in Startups

    This Week In AI is made possible by: PayPal: http://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Companies are spending $1 million on AI in a single month, but can’t always point directly to any resulting revenue. Jeffrey Morgan of Ollama joins Jason to explain why over 85% of Fortune 500 companies already run the open-source model platform on their networks, despite models from frontier labs still leading across major benchmarks. Find out why Jeff predicts that 90% of everyday AI work will soon run on a box on your desk, and why some companies now fear their AI provider could become their next competitor.…

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  • Open Models Change The Economics of AI

    September 04, 2026 · 📺 Y Combinator

    Ollama (YC W21) is used by 9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, giving co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Morgan a unique view into which AI models people are actually using and how that’s changing. Right now, the biggest shift he sees is toward open models, driven by coding agents, falling costs, and capabilities that are rapidly catching up to the frontier labs. On Ollama Cloud, that shift has driven a 150x increase in token usage since the start of the year. In this episode of the Lightcone, Jeff joins us to talk about the future of open models and the story behind Ollama, from two ye…

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  • The economics pushing AI toward open models

    August 27, 2026 · 📺 The Deep View and Jason Hiner

    AI's next power shift isn't gonna happen in a data center. In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sat down with Jeff Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Ollama, to explore why open models are gaining momentum, and why enterprises and developers increasingly want more control over their AI. Morgan explains how Ollama grew from a two-week experiment into software used across 80% of the Fortune 500, how the economics of coding agents are pushing teams toward open models, and why cost, privacy and control are becoming decisive advantages. He also breaks down the hardware shift bringing da…

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  • 5.6 Sol + Superapp Release, AI 2040, Tibothy Joins, New Robot Hand Alert, Meta Releases Muse 1.1

    July 09, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:05:27 Meta Releases Muse 1.1 00:06:36 GPT-5.6 Sol Reactions 00:19:24 Meta Prices AI to Win 00:33:59 Eric Seufert, a prominent analyst and founder of Mobile Dev Memo, discusses Meta's strategic use of AI in advertising to enhance ad performance and address investor skepticism. He emphasizes the importance of Meta's proprietary data in training AI models to create ads that are uniquely effective, thereby demonstrating the tangible benefits of their AI investments. Seufert also highlights the potential for AI-generated creative to alleviate bottlenecks in ad production, ultimately driving sign…

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  • Running Gemma on Mac and Windows PCs with Ollama

    April 04, 2025 · 📺 Google for Developers

    Discover how you can run Gemma on Mac and Windows PC using Ollama, from its co-founders Michael Chiang and Jeffrey Morgan. You'll learn how to easily take advantage of Gemma 3's impressive speed and ease of use via Ollama's intuitive interface, and how Ollama can also deploy these models on Google Cloud for scalable access. Learn how to leverage powerful AI, locally and in the cloud, with Ollama. Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers #Gemma #GemmaDeveloperDay Speakers: Michael Chiang, Jeffrey Morgan Products Mentioned: Gemma

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