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Ollama: all aboard open models

https://ollama.com/blog/all-aboard-open-models

Published: July 9, 2026 00:00

Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and many incredible angel investors.

Faster Gemma 4 on MLX with multi-token prediction

https://ollama.com/blog/faster-gemma-4-mlx-mtp

Published: June 29, 2026 00:00

Gemma 4 is now significantly faster in Ollama 0.31 on Apple Silicon via multi-token prediction (MTP), powered by MLX. Performance is now up to 90% faster when used with coding agents, as measured using the Aider polyglot benchmark.

Ollama's highest performance on Apple Silicon yet with MLX

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx-performance

Published: June 11, 2026 00:00

Ollama's MLX engine has been updated to deliver its highest performance on Apple Silicon yet. Models output higher quality responses, respond faster, and use less memory.

Improved performance and model support with GGUF

https://ollama.com/blog/improved-performance-and-model-support-with-gguf

Published: June 5, 2026 00:00

Ollama 0.30 is now available with improved performance and GGUF model compatibility through llama.cpp. This augments Ollama's MLX engine on Apple silicon, bringing support to more models on a wider range of hardware.

OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama

https://ollama.com/blog/openjarvis

Published: May 28, 2026 00:00

OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run on your own hardware, with Ollama support built-in.

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx

Published: March 30, 2026 00:00

Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.

OpenClaw

https://ollama.com/blog/openclaw

Published: February 1, 2026 00:00

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that connects your messaging apps to local AI coding agents, all running on your own device.

ollama launch

https://ollama.com/blog/launch

Published: January 23, 2026 00:00

ollama launch is a new command which sets up and runs coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with local or cloud models. No environment variables or config files needed.

Claude Code with Anthropic API compatibility

https://ollama.com/blog/claude

Published: January 16, 2026 00:00

Ollama is now compatible with the Anthropic Messages API, making it possible to use tools like Claude Code with open models.

OpenAI Codex with Ollama

https://ollama.com/blog/codex

Published: January 15, 2026 00:00

Open models can be used with OpenAI's Codex CLI through Ollama. Codex can read, modify, and execute code in your working directory using models such as gpt-oss:20b, gpt-oss:120b, or other open-weight alternatives.

OpenAI gpt-oss-safeguard

https://ollama.com/blog/gpt-oss-safeguard

Published: October 29, 2025 00:00

Ollama is partnering with OpenAI and ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) to bring the latest gpt-oss-safeguard reasoning models to users for safety classification tasks. gpt-oss-safeguard models are available in two sizes: 20B and 120B, and are…

MiniMax M2

https://ollama.com/blog/minimax-m2

Published: October 28, 2025 00:00

MiniMax M2 is now available on Ollama's cloud. It's a model built for coding and agentic workflows.

New coding models & integrations

https://ollama.com/blog/coding-models

Published: October 16, 2025 00:00

GLM-4.6 and Qwen3-coder-480B are available on Ollama’s cloud service with easy integrations to the tools you are familiar with. Qwen3-Coder-30B has been updated for faster, more reliable tool calling in Ollama’s new engine.

NVIDIA DGX Spark

https://ollama.com/blog/nvidia-spark

Published: October 13, 2025 00:00

The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and efficiently out-of-the-box.

Web search

https://ollama.com/blog/web-search

Published: September 24, 2025 00:00

A new web search API is now available in Ollama. Ollama provides a generous free tier of web searches for individuals to use, and higher rate limits are available via Ollama’s cloud.

New model scheduling

https://ollama.com/blog/new-model-scheduling

Published: September 23, 2025 00:00

Ollama now includes a significantly improved model scheduling system, reducing crashes due to out of memory issues, maximizing GPU utilization and performance, especially on multi-GPU systems.

Cloud models

https://ollama.com/blog/cloud-models

Published: September 19, 2025 00:00

Cloud models are now in preview, letting you run larger models with fast, datacenter-grade hardware. You can keep using your local tools while running larger models that wouldn’t fit on a personal computer.

Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models

https://ollama.com/blog/secureminions

Published: June 3, 2025 00:00

Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.

Thinking

https://ollama.com/blog/thinking

Published: May 30, 2025 00:00

Ollama now has the ability to enable or disable thinking. This gives users the flexibility to choose the model’s thinking behavior for different applications and use cases.

Streaming responses with tool calling

https://ollama.com/blog/streaming-tool

Published: May 28, 2025 00:00

Ollama now supports streaming responses with tool calling. This enables all chat applications to stream content and also call tools in real time.

Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

https://ollama.com/blog/minions

Published: February 25, 2025 00:00

Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small…

Structured outputs

https://ollama.com/blog/structured-outputs

Published: December 6, 2024 00:00

Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.

Ollama Python library 0.4 with function calling improvements

https://ollama.com/blog/functions-as-tools

Published: November 25, 2024 00:00

With Ollama Python library version 0.4, functions can now be provided as tools. The library now also has full typing support and new examples have been added.

Llama 3.2 goes small and multimodal

https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2

Published: September 25, 2024 00:00

Ollama partners with Meta to bring Llama 3.2 to Ollama.

Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck

https://ollama.com/blog/reduce-hallucinations-with-bespoke-minicheck

Published: September 18, 2024 00:00

Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now available in Ollama. It can fact-check responses generated by other models to detect and reduce hallucinations.

Tool support

https://ollama.com/blog/tool-support

Published: July 25, 2024 00:00

Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.

An entirely open-source AI code assistant inside your editor

https://ollama.com/blog/continue-code-assistant

Published: May 31, 2024 00:00

Continue enables you to easily create your own coding assistant directly inside Visual Studio Code and JetBrains with open-source LLMs.

Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support

https://ollama.com/blog/firebase-genkit

Published: May 20, 2024 00:00

At Google IO 2024, Google announced Ollama support in Firebase Genkit, a new open-source framework for developers to build, deploy and monitor production-ready AI-powered apps.

Llama 3 is not very censored

https://ollama.com/blog/llama-3-is-not-very-censored

Published: April 19, 2024 00:00

Compared to Llama 2, Llama 3 feels much less censored. Meta has substantially lowered false refusal rates. Llama 3 will refuse less than 1/3 of the prompts previously refused by Llama 2.

Llama 3

https://ollama.com/blog/llama3

Published: April 18, 2024 00:00

Llama 3 is now available to run on Ollama. This model is the next generation of Meta's state-of-the-art large language model, and is the most capable openly available LLM to date.

Embedding models

https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models

Published: April 8, 2024 00:00

Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

https://ollama.com/blog/amd-preview

Published: March 14, 2024 00:00

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.

Windows preview

https://ollama.com/blog/windows-preview

Published: February 15, 2024 00:00

Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the…

OpenAI compatibility

https://ollama.com/blog/openai-compatibility

Published: February 8, 2024 00:00

Ollama now has initial compatibility with the OpenAI Chat Completions API, making it possible to use existing tooling built for OpenAI with local models via Ollama.

Vision models

https://ollama.com/blog/vision-models

Published: February 2, 2024 00:00

New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.

Python & JavaScript Libraries

https://ollama.com/blog/python-javascript-libraries

Published: January 23, 2024 00:00

The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST…

Building LLM-Powered Web Apps with Client-Side Technology

https://ollama.com/blog/building-llm-powered-web-apps

Published: October 13, 2023 00:00

Recreate one of the most popular LangChain use-cases with open source, locally running software - a chain that performs Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG for short, and allows you to “chat with your documents”

Leveraging LLMs in your Obsidian Notes

https://ollama.com/blog/llms-in-obsidian

Published: September 21, 2023 00:00

This post walks through how you could incorporate a local LLM using Ollama in Obsidian, or potentially any note taking tool.

How to prompt Code Llama

https://ollama.com/blog/how-to-prompt-code-llama

Published: September 9, 2023 00:00

This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different variations and features including instructions, code completion and fill-in-the-middle (FIM).