Ollama has a native front end chatbot now

Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now by ozim on Thursday July 31, 2025 @05:36AM (#44743930)

I just updated and a bit annoying by default gemma3:4b was selected that I don't have on my local. I guess would be nicer to default to one of the models that are present.

It was nice it started downloading it but also there was no indication I don't have that model before hand until I opened drop-down to see download buttons.

But of course nice job guys.

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Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now by mchiang on Thursday July 31, 2025 @05:39AM (#44743951)

Thanks for the kind words. Sorry about that, we are working out some of the initial experience for Ollama.

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Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now by VagabundoP on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:57AM (#44744735)

Big thanks to you and your team for this. My first time tying offline models, will the github cli use the same models by default (MacOS)?

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Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now by hazmazlaz on Thursday July 31, 2025 @09:46AM (#44745604)

The need to start a chat for a model that is not currently downloaded in order to initiate a download confused me for a minute the first time I tried it out. A more intuitive approach (which is the first thing I tried to do before I figured it out) might be to make the download icons in the model list clickable, to initiate a download. Then you could display a download progress bar in the list, and when models have been downloaded show a little "info" icon that is also clickable to display the model card, surface other model specific options, and enable deletion. Love the new UI, kudos!

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