How Olmo 3 earned the highest ethical rating from Nextcloud

Nextcloud awarded 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. Nextcloud bundles Olmo 3 with its llm2 local LLM backend, citing the 7B model's ability to run on consumer hardware without high-end GPUs and its fit for customers seeking independence from big tech. Nextcloud engineer Marcel Klehr said fully open models make AI transparent, explainable, auditable and controllable, and that the company is working on expanding its AI features.