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Cover illustration for Claude Desktop Now Runs Local Models Through Ollama
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Claude Desktop Now Runs Local Models Through Ollama

Ollama's new Claude Desktop integration is one toggle: local or cloud open models appear in Claude's picker, with the full agent toolset intact.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 30, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Local LLM Servers Compared: Ollama vs vLLM vs llama.cpp
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Local LLM Servers Compared: Ollama vs vLLM vs llama.cpp

Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM and LM Studio all serve local models. Here's which one fits your hardware, from a 16GB laptop to a four-GPU workstation.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 4, 2026★10 min read
Cover illustration for Gemma 4 Runs 90% Faster on Apple Silicon in Ollama
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Gemma 4 Runs 90% Faster on Apple Silicon in Ollama

Ollama v0.32.0 makes Google's Gemma 4 nearly 90% faster on Apple Silicon via multi-token prediction — local AI on a laptop just got a lot snappier.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 15, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Best Mini PC for Local LLMs in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
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Best Mini PC for Local LLMs in 2026: A Buyer's Guide

The best mini PC for local LLMs comes down to unified memory and bandwidth. Our 2026 buyer's guide compares top picks from budget to 128GB powerhouses.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 15, 2026★9 min read
Cover illustration for Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI
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Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI

Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, growing to 8.9M monthly developers and a presence in 85% of the Fortune 500.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 11, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Ollama v0.31.1 Boosts Local AI Performance on Apple Silicon
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Ollama v0.31.1 Boosts Local AI Performance on Apple Silicon

Ollama v0.31.1 makes Gemma 4 about 90% faster on Apple Silicon via multi-token prediction, advancing local AI performance and privacy.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 4, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Ollama 0.30.8 Widens Local AI Hardware Support and Speeds Up Apple Silicon
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Ollama 0.30.8 Widens Local AI Hardware Support and Speeds Up Apple Silicon

Ollama 0.30.8, released June 12, broadens GGUF hardware support through llama.cpp and upgrades its Apple Silicon MLX engine for faster, private local AI.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jun 20, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Gemma 4 QAT Lands in Ollama, Cutting Local AI Memory by ~72%
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Gemma 4 QAT Lands in Ollama, Cutting Local AI Memory by ~72%

Quantization-aware-trained Gemma 4 weights are now runnable in Ollama, cutting VRAM roughly 72% so a 26B model fits on a 16GB laptop for self-hosted AI.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jun 14, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Ollama v0.24 Lands With Qwen 3.6 Support — Local AI Just Got a Major Upgrade for Self-Hosted LLM Builders
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Ollama v0.24 Lands With Qwen 3.6 Support — Local AI Just Got a Major Upgrade for Self-Hosted LLM Builders

Ollama released v0.24.0 on May 14, 2026 with first-class support for Qwen 3.6 — bringing Alibaba's 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts model to anyone running local LLMs on their own hardware.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★May 18, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.6 Arrives on Ollama: Run a 35B Agentic Coding AI Locally With 256K Context
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Qwen3.6 Arrives on Ollama: Run a 35B Agentic Coding AI Locally With 256K Context

Alibaba's Qwen3.6 is now on Ollama — a 35B open-weight model with 256K context, vision support, and thinking preservation built for agentic coding workflows you can run on your own hardware.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Apr 18, 2026★5 min read