Ollama: MLX Runner Gets Major Model Upgrades
Patrick Devine delivered two significant PRs expanding MLX Runner support with Gemma3 and Llama3 architectures, plus streamlined quantization code. The team also cleaned up documentation with a macOS download link fix, making it a solid day of both feature development and user experience improvements.
Duration: PT3M57S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Ollama.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Ollama
- Published: 2026-02-16T11:05:02Z
- Audio duration: PT3M57S
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Hey there, fantastic developers! Welcome back to another episode of the Ollama podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have some exciting updates to dive into today. If you're just tuning in, this is where we catch up on all the latest happenings in the Ollama codebase - think of it as your daily dose of what's…
So grab your coffee, tea, or whatever fuel keeps your code flowing, because February 16th brought us some really substantial improvements that I think you're going to love.
Let's jump right into the main event - and honestly, today feels like Patrick Devine had a bit of a coding marathon! We got not one, but two major pull requests that are going to make MLX Runner significantly more powerful.
First up is PR 14276, which adds Gemma3 support to the MLX Runner. Now, this isn't just a simple "hey, let's add another model" kind of change. We're talking about nearly 900 lines of additions across six files, including a brand new quantization module and a complete Gemma3 implementation. What I love about this PR…
The really cool part? This change touched everything from the imports and pipeline logic to creating an entirely new models directory for Gemma3. Plus, there was some…
But…
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