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About Ollama

Ollama is an AI tool. Ollama is an open-source tool for downloading and running large language models locally on a personal computer instead of in the cloud. This page tracks 179 recent news stories about Ollama, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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First tracked Jan 2026. Most-citing sources: Medium (143), Towards AI (37), r/LocalLLaMA (24), r/artificial (5). Data aggregated by Best AI News Today from 30+ sources.

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vLLM vs Ollama 2026: 9x Throughput Gap, 172K Stars [Tested] - tech-insider.org

A dramatic performance gap has emerged in the open-source AI inference wars, with one framework delivering nine times the throughput of its rival even as both race to capture developer mindshare in a market that could determine which companies control how AI models are deployed. The benchmarks reveal that raw speed alone may not guarantee adoption—the slower platform has amassed 172,000 stars on GitHub, suggesting developers weigh factors like ease of use and community support against pure computational efficiency. As enterprises rush to optimize their AI infrastructure costs, this divergence raises urgent questions about whether the industry is converging on winner-take-all dynamics or whether the market has room for platforms optimized for different use cases.

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AI Agent Course - Build A Language‑Learning Agent With OpenAI, LangGraph, Ollama & MCP Mike D (RJ8wb6s8bZ)

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How to Import LM Studio Models into Ollama (No Re-Download!)
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How to Import LM Studio Models into Ollama (No Re-Download!)

Downloaded a bunch of models in LM Studio? 📦 Continue reading on Medium »

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Microsoft Says Hand-Written Code Is Over, and Developers Are Ditching Ollama

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From Fine-Tuning to Precision: Significantly Reducing Hallucinations in Your RAG Pipeline
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From Fine-Tuning to Precision: Significantly Reducing Hallucinations in Your RAG Pipeline

by Froilan Sia — Part 3: Fine-tuning vision models with MLX on Apple Silicon, preparing datasets, and deploying specialized models with Ollama.

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I Built a Local AI Agent With Ollama — and the Hard Part Wasn’t the Model

A practical lesson in tool calling, state, validation, and stopping an agent before it confidently does the wrong thing Continue reading on Medium »

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Open Models Now Handle 80-90% of Enterprise AI Tokens, Ollama's Jeffrey Morgan Says

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I Tried 100+ LLMs on My M4 Mac Mini. Only 9 Were Actually Worth Keeping
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I Tried 100+ LLMs on My M4 Mac Mini. Only 9 Were Actually Worth Keeping

by NextGen AI — I spent three weekends downloading almost every open model I could find, pointing Ollama and LM Studio at my 32GB M4 Mac mini, and…

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I Turned a Messy OT Syslog Dump Into a Triage Brief Before Dinner — Local Ollama, Zero API Keys

I Turned a Messy OT Syslog Dump Into a Triage Brief Before Dinner — Local Ollama, Zero API Keys Continue reading on Medium »

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Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama

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Building a Local, Ollama-Powered Insurance Claim Review Agent: What Broke Along the Way
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Building a Local, Ollama-Powered Insurance Claim Review Agent: What Broke Along the Way

by Abiola Olayimika — A ReAct agent built with LangChain and LangGraph, running entirely on local open-source models, and the tool-calling reliability problems…

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From 50 Seconds to 4.4: Fixing Ollama Cold Starts on Runpod Serverless
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From 50 Seconds to 4.4: Fixing Ollama Cold Starts on Runpod Serverless

by Gangala Surya Kumar — If you’ve tried running Ollama on a serverless GPU platform, you’ve probably hit the same wall we did: every time a worker spins up from…

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Ollama open models cost collapse is real

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Ollama Gives Codex 4,096 Tokens, Then Quietly Drops Your Oldest Messages

Ollama shipped Codex compaction on September 4 and an overflow retry on September 8. Continue reading on Medium »

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I ditched Ollama for Jan after realizing what I actually wanted from local AI
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I ditched Ollama for Jan after realizing what I actually wanted from local AI

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Troubleshooting Local AI: Fix Ollama WSL2 Errors & Connect Dify

Learn how to fix Ollama WSL2 network connection refused errors, solve the localhost trap, and successfully connect Dify to vLLM for a… Continue reading on Medium »

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Your Mac Is Running Local LLMs on the Wrong Engine
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Your Mac Is Running Local LLMs on the Wrong Engine

by Anubhav — Ollama, LM Studio and MLX each pick a different part of your chip, none of them asks you, and one of them was picking wrong on the newest…

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Otaku — an LLM frontend

Otaku is an LLM frontend, primarily designed for roleplay, an alternative to SillyTavern and the like. However, It also works for general-purpose chat with local backends (including Ollama) or cloud...

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Using OpenCode with Local Models on an Old Intel Mac
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Using OpenCode with Local Models on an Old Intel Mac

A practical guide to running an isolated autonomous coding agent with native Ollama inference on an old Intel MacBook Pro. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ollama?

Ollama is Ollama is an open-source tool for downloading and running large language models locally on a personal computer instead of in the cloud.

Where can I access Ollama?

Ollama is available at https://ollama.com.

What is the latest news about Ollama?

As of today, there are 179 recent stories about Ollama. Recent headlines include: AI Agent Course - Build A Language‑Learning Agent With OpenAI, LangGraph, Ollama & MCP Mike D (RJ8wb6s8bZ); I Tried 100+ LLMs on My M4 Mac Mini. Only 9 Were Actually Worth Keeping; Ollama Gives Codex 4,096 Tokens, Then Quietly Drops Your Oldest Messages. This page is updated every 15 minutes.

Is Ollama open source?

Yes — Ollama is open source. The source code is publicly available, allowing developers to inspect, modify, and self-host.