Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.40.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.40.0. Source highlight: **Models run on MLX on Apple Silicon by default**
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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## What's Changed
**Models run on MLX on Apple Silicon by default**
In this release, on Apple Silicon devices, model architectures supported by the MLX runtime will automatically run on MLX.
```
ollama pull qwen3.8
ollama run qwen3.8
```
Additional models include [gemma4](https://ollama.com/library/gemma4), [qwen3.6](https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.6) and [qwen3.5](https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.5)
Decision models are now available on MLX as well: [Nimble](https://ollama.com/library/nimble) [tev1](https://ollama.com/library/tev1) [clef](https://ollama.com/library/clef) [clef-flash](https://ollama.com/library/clef-flash)
MLX now has support for an embedding model: [embeddinggemma-2](https://ollama.com/library/embeddinggemma-2)
We will continue testing and enabling additional models.
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.35.1...v0.40.0