# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-26T06:22:56.640Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-26/claude-desktop-can-now-route-to-ollama-putting-chinese-open
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Ollama](https://ollama.com/blog/claude-desktop), [Ollama GitHub](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/15992), [Product Compass](https://www.productcompass.pm/p/cowork-on-3p-any-llm)

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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