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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 26, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
Claude Desktop Can Now Route to Ollama, Putting Chinese Open Weights Inside Anthropic's Client
The configuration uses Anthropic's third-party inference gateway, letting the desktop application run Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Qwen and other open models locally or through Ollama's cloud.
Ollama published instructions for configuring Claude Desktop to use Ollama as a third-party gateway provider. The launch path is a single command, ollama launch claude-desktop, and it routes the desktop client's inference either to models r…
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Chinese Open-Weight Models Emerge as the Non-US AI Stack
As Washington restricts foreign access to US frontier models, governments and enterprises cut off from American AI increasingly standardize on downloadable Chinese open-weight models, splitting the world into competing AI supply blocs rather than a single frontier.
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