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Ollama v0.40.0-rc1 updates mlx tokenizer semantics

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Ollama has released version v0.40.0-rc1, which includes updates to its mlx integration. These changes focus on aligning tokenizer semantics with publisher standards, ensuring consistent handling of pretokenization, Unicode boundaries, and token normalization. The release also adds shared Go and Python reference cases for published tokenizers and addresses configuration precedence and byte fallback behaviors. AI

IMPACT Improves the underlying tokenization process for models run through Ollama's mlx integration.

RANK_REASON This is a release of a software tool, not a frontier model or significant industry event.

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Ollama v0.40.0-rc1 updates mlx tokenizer semantics

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  1. Ollama — Releases TIER_1 English(EN) · dhiltgen ·

    v0.40.0-rc1: mlx: match publisher tokenizer semantics (#18779)

    <ul> <li>mlx: match publisher tokenizer semantics</li> </ul> <p>Honor pretokenizer stage order, split behavior, Unicode boundaries,<br /> added-token normalization, and ranked BPE merges. Handle empty added<br /> tokens and empty Metaspace input consistently.</p> <p>Add shared Go…

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