Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

What changed

/Users/ollama/Downloads/multimodal-example1.png Added image '/Users/ollama/Downloads/multimodal-example1.png' The image depicts a scenic waterfront area with a prominent clock tower at its center. As more multimodal models are released by major research labs, the task of supporting these models the way Ollama intends became more and more challenging. For many firmware releases, partners will validate/test it against Ollama to minimize regression and to benchmark against new features.

Why it matters

A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.

How it compares

Related prior coverage to compare against:

• Llama 3.2 goes small and multimodal
• Improved performance and model support with GGUF
• Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

• Llama 3.2 goes small and multimodal similarity 0.32
• Improved performance and model support with GGUF similarity 0.27
• Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers similarity 0.24