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Ollama releases updates with new models, speech, and coding capabilities

Ollama has released several updates, including version v0.40.10 which integrates NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B model for efficient local conversations and image understanding. Prior releases, v0.40.9 and v0.40.8, introduced speech generation capabilities using Phonon on Apple Silicon and integrated Recursive's coding model, Flint, respectively. These updates enhance Ollama's functionality for local AI applications, covering multimodal understanding, audio output, and code assistance. AI

IMPACT Enhances local AI capabilities for developers and users with new models and features.

RANK_REASON Ollama is a tool for running LLMs locally, and these are updates to that tool.

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    ⚙️ New Ollama Release! ⚙️ Version: v0.40.10 Release Notes: ## NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B [Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B]( https:// ollama.com/library/nemotron-3. 5-bo

    ⚙️ New Ollama Release! ⚙️ Version: v0.40.10 Release Notes: ## NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B [Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B]( https:// ollama.com/library/nemotron-3. 5-bolt ) is NVIDIA’s smaller, Gemma 4-based vision-language model for fast local conversations, image understanding, and too…

  2. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    ⚙️ New Ollama Release! ⚙️ Version: v0.40.9 Release Notes: ## Speech Ollama can now generate [speech]( https:// docs.ollama.com/capabilities/s peech ) with Phono

    ⚙️ New Ollama Release! ⚙️ Version: v0.40.9 Release Notes: ## Speech Ollama can now generate [speech]( https:// docs.ollama.com/capabilities/s peech ) with Phonon on Apple Silicon. `ollama run` plays text or a chat model's reply aloud as the audio is generated, and apps can stream…

  3. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    ⚙️ New Ollama Release! ⚙️ Version: v0.40.8 Release Notes: <p align="center"><img width="160" alt="flint-logo" src=" https:// github.com/user-attachments/as sets

    ⚙️ New Ollama Release! ⚙️ Version: v0.40.8 Release Notes: <p align="center"><img width="160" alt="flint-logo" src=" https:// github.com/user-attachments/as sets/3c1741a5-710c-4bde-8ac7-096e40b495bb " /></p> ## Recursive Flint [Flint]( https:// ollama.com/library/flint ) brings Re…