Ollama: Qwen 3.5 Architecture Lands with Safety Upgrades
The Ollama team delivered major model architecture updates with full Qwen 3.5 support, including the new 27B parameter variant. Meanwhile, Bruce MacDonald strengthened the foundation with tensor validation improvements that catch sizing issues during model quantization, making the whole system more reliable.
Duration: PT3M48S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Ollama.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Ollama
- Published: 2026-02-25T11:01:49Z
- Audio duration: PT3M48S
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Hey there, amazing 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. Grab your favorite beverage because we're talking about some really meaningful progress that happened yesterday.
So the big story today is all about expanding horizons and building stronger foundations. The team has been working on some incredible improvements that I think you're going to love.
Let's start with the headline act - Jeffrey Morgan just landed full support for the Qwen 3.5 architecture! And when I say full support, I mean this was no small undertaking. We're talking about changes across 31 files with nearly two thousand lines of code touched. This is the kind of comprehensive work that opens…
What's really cool about this update is how thoughtfully it was implemented. Jeffrey completely reworked the conversion pipeline, added robust testing - I'm talking over 500 lines of new tests - and even cleaned house by removing some old checkpoint files that were no longer needed. It's like renovating your entire…
But wait, there's more! Hot on the heels of that architecture support, Jeffrey followed up with specific…
Now,…