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Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled

Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop, enabling users to connect Anthropic's app to open-weight models such as Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi, after its first effort stalled. The integration allows Claude Desktop to run these models locally through Ollama's model runner.

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Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served

The post Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled appeared first on The New Stack.

source & further reading
thenewstack.io — original article Shopify’s CEO threatened to ban Claude Code. Anthropic had already closed the feature request. AI agents are spreading fast. Their rules are still catching up. Thomson Reuters trained its own AI model. Then it kept using Anthropic’s anyway.
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