Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.31.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.31.1. Source highlight: Faster Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon
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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Improved Gemma 4 multi-token prediction (MTP) performance
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Faster Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon
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Gemma 4 is now significantly faster in Ollama on Apple Silicon, generating tokens nearly 90% faster on average across a coding-agent benchmark by leveraging multi-token prediction (MTP). Ollama auto-tunes how many tokens to draft as it runs, so the speedup is on by default, requires no configuration, and does not change the model's output.
## What's Changed
- Tightened Gemma 4 MoE model loading in the MLX engine
- Updated the MLX engine to the latest version, including a new small-batch matmul kernel
- Updated the underlying llama.cpp engine to build 9840
- Improved Gemma 4 multi-token prediction (MTP) performance
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.30.12...v0.31.1