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Structured outputs

December 6, 2024

Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.

Ollama Python library 0.4 with function calling improvements

November 25, 2024

With Ollama Python library version 0.4, functions can now be provided as tools. The library now also has full typing support and new examples have been added.

Llama 3.2 Vision

November 6, 2024

Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.

IBM Granite 3.0 models

October 21, 2024

Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.

Llama 3.2 goes small and multimodal

September 25, 2024

Ollama partners with Meta to bring Llama 3.2 to Ollama.

Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck

September 18, 2024

Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now available in Ollama. It can fact-check responses generated by other models to detect and reduce hallucinations.

Tool support

July 25, 2024

Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.

Google Gemma 2

June 27, 2024

Gemma 2 is now available on Ollama in 3 sizes - 2B, 9B and 27B.

An entirely open-source AI code assistant inside your editor

May 31, 2024

Continue enables you to easily create your own coding assistant directly inside Visual Studio Code and JetBrains with open-source LLMs.

Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support

May 20, 2024

At Google IO 2024, Google announced Ollama support in Firebase Genkit, a new open-source framework for developers to build, deploy and monitor production-ready AI-powered apps.

Llama 3 is not very censored

April 19, 2024

Compared to Llama 2, Llama 3 feels much less censored. Meta has substantially lowered false refusal rates. Llama 3 will refuse less than 1/3 of the prompts previously refused by Llama 2.

Llama 3

April 18, 2024

Llama 3 is now available to run on Ollama. This model is the next generation of Meta's state-of-the-art large language model, and is the most capable openly available LLM to date.

Embedding models

April 8, 2024

Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

March 14, 2024

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.

Windows preview

February 15, 2024

Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.

OpenAI compatibility

February 8, 2024

Ollama now has initial compatibility with the OpenAI Chat Completions API, making it possible to use existing tooling built for OpenAI with local models via Ollama.

Vision models

February 2, 2024

New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.

Python & JavaScript Libraries

January 23, 2024

The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous versions of Ollama.