Vol. I · No. 199WED, NOV 4, 2026
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Last updated Nov 4, 2026, 4:00 AM

Speech models in Ollama

Ollama now supports speech models, starting with Phonon from Gradium. Read text aloud in five languages and dozens of voices, streamed as it is generated, over 100 times faster than real time on Apple Silicon.

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Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models

Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision models can now be run at no cost with low latency. Based on text, decision models answer yes-or-no questions, choices and scores about it, with a probability for every option.

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Ollama's transparent pricing

Ollama's Pro, Max, and Team plans now use industry-standard per-token pricing with usage included on every plan.

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Claude Desktop support with Ollama

Claude Desktop can now be configured to work with Ollama as a third-party gateway provider, making it possible to use open models in Claude.

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available on Ollama. It's a 30 billion parameter (3B active) open model built for agents that stay running, gathering context, calling tools, and working through multi-step tasks on your own hardware.

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Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available

Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available. Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local coding agents, and accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and image input support.

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Ollama: all aboard open models

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

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Faster Gemma 4 on MLX with multi-token prediction

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.

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Improved performance and model support with GGUF

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.

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.

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OpenClaw

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

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ollama launch

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.

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OpenAI Codex with Ollama

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.

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OpenAI gpt-oss-safeguard

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 permissively licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

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MiniMax M2

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

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New coding models & integrations

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.

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Qwen3-VL

Ollama now supports Alibaba's Qwen3-VL.

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NVIDIA DGX Spark

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

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Web search

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.

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New model scheduling

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.

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Cloud models

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.

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OpenAI gpt-oss

Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.

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Thinking

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.

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Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

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 on-device models (such as Llama 3.2 with Ollama) collaborate with larger models in the cloud (such as GPT-4o).

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Structured outputs

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.

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Llama 3.2 Vision

Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.

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Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck

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.

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Tool support

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.

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Google Gemma 2

Gemma 2 is now available on Ollama in 3 sizes - 2B, 9B and 27B.

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Llama 3 is not very censored

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.

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