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

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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 through Ollama, including models running locally on their own machines.

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

Ollama’s model catalog inside Claude Desktop

A second shot at Claude Desktop

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 be pointed at 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. 21, and Ollama quietly introduced a new implementation in v0.33.0 that addresses that mismatch with a dedicated local proxy for Claude Desktop. In a blog post published on Tuesday …

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