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Ollama defaults supported Apple Silicon models to MLX

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On Apple Silicon, Ollama now runs supported model architectures on MLX by default and adds several models, including decision models. This changes the local inference runtime path for users of supported models.

What

Ollama v0.40.0 makes supported MLX model architectures run on MLX by default on Apple Silicon.

How

The release also adds models including Gemma4, Qwen3.6, and Qwen3.5, and makes decision models available on MLX.

Why it matters

Automatic runtime selection simplifies running supported models on Apple Silicon devices.

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