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Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
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Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon, offering significantly improved performance for applications on macOS. This enhancement accelerates personal assistants like OpenClaw and coding agents such as Claude Code and OpenCode.
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- Praise: Running LLMs on device enhances security and addresses the demand for inference, potentially reducing electricity consumption, which is crucial for sustainable AI deployment.
- Praise: The transition to native MLX on Apple Silicon is expected to improve memory handling, which could lead to better performance for larger models.
- Concern: There is uncertainty about the performance of Ollama compared to other models and inference engines, indicating potential limitations in its capabilities.
- Concern: Users express frustration about the current hardware limitations, such as running advanced models on systems with only 16GB of RAM.