The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Linux is out with a new release. The ollama v0.17.0 release is driven by new functionality around enhancing the OpenClaw onboarding process.
For those interested in OpenClaw, the AI agent that runs on your machine and allows interacting with a variety of files / apps services while being focused on interfacing with the user via messaging platforms, there is improved integration with ollama 0.17.
The nice OpenClaw onboarding process from ollama can now be done with simply ollama launch openclaw with Ollama handling the installation, first-launch security notices, model selection, and other onboarding as well as launching an OpenClaw text user interface console.
More details on the improved OpenClaw onboarding with ollama can be found via this pull request overnight that in turn led to the v0.17 release.
Besides improving the OpenClaw integration, ollama now exposes the server’s default context length to the user interface and has a few other changes too. Downloads and more details on the ollama 0.17 release via GitHub.
