Ollama Goes MLX: What Apple's Framework Really Changes for Local LLMs — and How It Stacks Up Against Foundry Local

Ollama 0.19 ships with an MLX backend for Apple Silicon — up to 2x faster decode, real unified-memory use, and M5 Neural Accelerator support. A proper look at what actually changed, why it's faster, and how it stacks up against Microsoft's Foundry Local.