New open models fail to load in Ollama
Newly released open models such as Gemma 3n, Phi-4 and Apertus fail to load in Ollama or are never added to it.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 29 February 2024 · last reported 2 September 2025
What's going wrong
Users of the Ollama project regularly ask for recently released open-weight models to be runnable, and some report hard failures.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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