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

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

Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served via Ollama, including those running locally on their machines.

This effectively means Claude users can tap into Ollama’s library, which includes popular models such as Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM, while remaining within the Claude Desktop interface — with Ollama serving as the gateway to whichever model handles the request.

This isn’t Ollama’s first attempt to bring its model catalog to Anthropic’s tools. Back in January, the company added support for Anthropic’s Messages API, allowing Claude Code to point to Ollama and use local or cloud-hosted models instead of Claude.

In April, Anthropic quietly opened a similar opportunity within the Claude Desktop app, adding a developer setting that let it connect to third-party inference gateways. Ollama seized on that with ollama launch claude-desktop, which configured the desktop app to use Ollama; however, the integration lasted mere days — following a Claude Desktop update, users found that the app’s gateway accepted the connection but rejected non-Anthropic model IDs. And so Ollama removed the feature, saying Claude Desktop’s third-party integration had become “limited to Anthropic models.”

Fast forward to Aug. 0 that addresses that mismatch with a dedicated local proxy for Claude Desktop. ” Ollama itself handles the setup: users open the Ollama app, select Claude, and enable the integration, after which Ollama automatically configures Claude Desktop’s third-party gateway. Switching it off restores the user’s previous Claude setup.


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