Daily AI Cooking

Server - ollama

Installation and pulling models
On MacOS v26 (on MacBook Pro M5) 
 Ollama itself 
 curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
 
 Models 
 In use 
 Best quality: the Apple Silicon (MLX) build (~18 GB) 
 ollama pull qwen3.8:27b-mlx
 
 
 Fast: MoE daily driver (~23 GB) 
 ollama pull qwen3.6:35b-a3b
 
 the official qwen3.6:35b-a3b tag is a 23GB Q4_K_M. That's tight on 32 GB, so if memory gets squeezed, pull a smaller community IQ4_XS instead (~17.7GB): 
 ollama pull hf.co/bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:IQ4_XS
 
 Small model: for autocomplete 
 ollama pull qwen3.5:9b
 
 
 Tested 
 
 good, but too big, calculations are long (40'--4h), almost can not predict workflow pace (timing). Sometimes takes too much time for smaller tasks. 
 
 ollama pull qwen3-coder:30b