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Moose: the GNOME local-AI app runs on Ollama

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Moose is a new native GTK4/libadwaita app for GNOME, written in Rust under GPLv3, that lets you chat with local models via Ollama: it handles Ollama setup, model management and loading local documents and images. It's on Flathub, the code is on GitHub, and it was announced on This Week in GNOME.
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