Ollama: Weekly Recap - MLX Performance & Launch Integration Expansion
Ollama merged 14 pull requests this week focusing on MLX performance improvements, new launch integrations for Copilot CLI and Hermes, and enhanced Gemma4 model rendering capabilities.
Duration: PT3M1S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Ollama.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Ollama
- Published: 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT3M1S
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Good morning. This is your Ollama weekly recap for April 13th through 20th, 2026.
Fourteen PRs merged, 30 additional commits this week.
**Features**
Major launch integration expansion this week. PR #15583 adds GitHub Copilot CLI support, allowing users to run "ollama launch copilot" with automatic installation detection and provider environment variables. PR #15569 introduces Hermes agent integration with a managed single-model flow, including onboarding and…
Gemma4 rendering received significant updates in PR #15612, implementing dynamic resolution based on model size with separate handling for small versus large variants while maintaining backwards compatibility.
**Performance & Fixes**
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