Ollama's quiet Mac shift, the Qwen refresh, and the closed-weight drift
Ollama 0.30 quietly changed how Apple Silicon runs models, auto-routing safetensors to MLX and GGUF to llama.cpp Metal. The open workhorses are now Qwen 3.5 9B and Qwen 3.6 27B. Plus: Qwen's last two flagship models shipped closed.
Jun 8, 2026