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Nextcloud gave Olmo 3 its highest Ethical AI rating, green, which requires open-source training and inference software, a self-hostable trained model and publicly available training data.
Ai2's model is one of those Nextcloud bundles with llm2, the local LLM backend behind AI features in Nextcloud Assistant, Mail and other apps, and the company says it picked Olmo 3 because customers want to know what a model is built from and reproduce it.
- Nextcloud software engineer Marcel Klehr says the 7B model was chosen so users without 16 or even 32 GB of VRAM still get a good out-of-the-box experience.
- Administrators can configure Olmo centrally through llm2 and expose it to staff inside tools they already use, rather than a separate chatbot.
- Nextcloud's clients include public-sector agencies and research institutions; CSIC uses it to give roughly 17,000 researchers a self-hosted environment for research data.
- Klehr says Nextcloud is working on extending its AI features, and names stronger tool use and multimodal support as capabilities he would like to see next.
