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What r/ollama is talking about this week

r/ollama has 143,599 members and 14 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 2.8 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

143,599members
14posts in the last 24 hours, newest 44 min ago
2.8comments an hour right now, newest 29 min ago
59points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/ollama this week

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Top threads this week

  1. Kimi 3.1 Pro

    Has someone experience with it?

    59 points5 comments4 d ago
  2. What are currently the go to 4b and 9b models?

    As the title states I am currently looking for the best 4b and 9b models to run locally. What are your experiences and what would you recommend?

    43 points38 comments2 d ago
  3. What can I realistically do with local AI on a Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB)?

    I just got a Mac mini with an M5 Pro (base CPU config) and 48GB of unified memory. I want to run as much AI locally as makes sense, but it's hard to separate what actually works day to day from...

    39 points30 comments16 h ago
  4. I built an open source meeting notetaker that summarises with local Ollama model (Google Meet and Teams)

    I wanted Otter or Fireflies style meeting notes with a bit more control/privacy, so I built OpenMinutes. A bot joins your Google Meet or Microsoft Teams call, records it, and writes a transcript...

    36 points4 comments5 d ago
  5. Benchmarking Qwen3.8-27B across 6 inference engines: GGUF vs NInfer, 64K–256K context, speed AND quality

    I've been working on a comprehensive Qwen3.8-27B inference benchmark comparing six engines, including TensorSharp, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, and NInfer. Most LLM benchmarks focus on...

    35 points13 comments3 d ago
  6. SurfSense 2.3.0: an open-source NotebookLM alternative that runs on your Ollama models

    I'm one of the maintainers, so this is self-promotion. I posted here a couple of weeks ago, and a lot has changed since, so here's an update. SurfSense is an open-source (Apache-2.0) desktop app...

    30 points5 comments6 d ago
  7. Ollama runs the brain of a stick figure that lives on my Mac desktop

    I made a stick figure that lives on my Mac desktop, and a local Ollama model decides what it does. Repo: https://github.com/surenjanath/stickman How it uses Ollama: Every 4 seconds it calls...

    28 points8 comments5 d ago
  8. Trying "Weight-Space Programming" on a local 35B GGUF to fix agent loops

    After reading MIT CSAIL’s Sparks of Weight-Space Programming (especially Experiment 8, where an LLM fixes Qwen3.5’s reasoning loops by editing 64 MLP columns directly), I wanted to see if an agent...

    22 points1 comment6 d ago
  9. I gave my desktop pets a tiny local brain (gemma3:1b in Ollama) and now they ignore me on purpose

    I made a little Mac app with nine desktop pets: three cats, a fox, a raccoon, two dogs, a rabbit and a squirrel. They walk on top of your windows, nap, steal stuff and ignore you when you call...

    21 points11 comments1 d ago
  10. What is the current best coding model for 12gb vram?

    Hi, I have an Intel Arc B580 and as you know it has 12gb vram, i was wondering if any of you could advise me on what is the best coding model that fits within that size. I know qwen 3.8 27b and...

    15 points35 comments15 h ago

Newest posts

  1. Ollama on mac mini m2, 16 gb
    0 points0 comments44 min ago
  2. Open compute network: run a node with one command and help pool 100,000 CPUs/GPUs for open-weight AI.
    1 points0 comments1 h ago
  3. Desktop Quantization workspace for Large Language Models: Load local Safetensors or Huggingface, Step-by-Step guided Conversions to GGUF, MLX, and ONNX, and Visualize Model Changes and quick publishing to huggingface with full model card.
    1 points0 comments7 h ago
  4. Llama as a harness
    0 points3 comments9 h ago
  5. which model is better? MOSS, Krea2 or qwen?
    1 points1 comment15 h ago
  6. What is the current best coding model for 12gb vram?
    15 points35 comments15 h ago
  7. What can I realistically do with local AI on a Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB)?
    39 points30 comments16 h ago
  8. OverTone 0.1 — an early preview of an open-source Mac app for Ollama
    3 points1 comment16 h ago
  9. I made Joe-ai, a free, open-source desktop app that sets up Ollama and ComfyUI for you and runs local AI tasks from one window
    3 points0 comments17 h ago
  10. profullstack invited you to run a c0mpute node
    1 points0 comments17 h ago
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