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Ollama 0.19 Update Boosts Performance on Apple Silicon Macs

4/1/2026

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Ollama's version 0.19 update for Apple Silicon Macs uses the MLX framework to boost performance, increasing prompt-processing speed by 1.6x and nearly doubling response-generation speed.
Macs with M5-series chips benefit most from GPU Neural Accelerators.
The update improves memory management, making OpenClaw and coding agents more responsive.
Users must have a Mac with over 32GB of unified memory.
Support is limited to Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model.

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Story summary

Ollama's version 0.19 update for Apple Silicon Macs uses the MLX framework to boost performance, increasing prompt-processing speed by 1.6x and nearly doubling response-generation speed.
Macs with M5-series chips benefit most from GPU Neural Accelerators.
The update improves memory management, making OpenClaw and coding agents more responsive.
Users must have a Mac with over 32GB of unified memory.
Support is limited to Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model.