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Ollama Models and its Strengths - Updated 9th March 2025

Allowance models, their strengths and the two most relevant tags of each.

We're happy to have you here! This is the document where we detail the strenghs of Models, LLMs, available in Ollama and guide you on when to use them. Don't forget to bookmark this link: https://documentation.triplo.ai/faq/ollama-models-and-its-strengths.


Below is a simple, one‐by‐one overview of each model. Each section includes a brief description, notes on what the model excels at, and suggestions for who might find it most useful.


Phi-4-mini

Description: Phi-4-mini is a lightweight open model that offers significant enhancements in multilingual support, reasoning, and mathematics. It introduces the long-awaited function calling feature and supports a 128K token context length. Built upon synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites, the model emphasizes high-quality, reasoning-dense data. It is part of the Phi-4 model family and has undergone enhancements through supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization to ensure precise instruction adherence and robust safety measures.

Where It Excels: Phi-4-mini excels in environments where memory and compute resources are constrained, and in scenarios where low latency is critical. It is particularly strong in reasoning tasks, especially those involving mathematics and logic. The model is designed to accelerate research on language and multimodal models and serves as a foundational component for generative AI-powered features.

Who Should Use It: Phi-4-mini is ideal for both commercial and research users who require a robust multilingual model for general-purpose AI systems. It is particularly suited for developers and researchers working in memory/compute constrained environments or those focused on tasks demanding strong reasoning capabilities. The model is also a valuable tool for those looking to advance research in language and multimodal AI applications.

ollama run phi4-mini

 


Granite-3.2 Instruct

Description: Granite-3.2 is a sophisticated family of long-context AI models developed by IBM Granite, specifically fine-tuned for enhanced thinking capabilities. This iteration builds upon the foundation of Granite-3.1, incorporating a blend of permissively licensed open-source datasets and internally generated synthetic data tailored for reasoning tasks. The models offer controllability over their thinking functions, ensuring these capabilities are utilized only when necessary, providing a versatile solution for a wide range of applications.

Where It Excels: Granite-3.2 excels in handling long-context tasks, such as summarizing lengthy documents or meetings and answering questions based on extensive content. Its capabilities extend to various AI tasks, including thinking, summarization, text classification, text extraction, question-answering, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), code-related tasks, and function-calling tasks. The model's multilingual support and ability to perform in diverse dialog contexts make it particularly valuable for applications requiring nuanced understanding and processing of complex information.

Who Should Use It: Granite-3.2 is ideal for developers and businesses seeking to integrate advanced AI capabilities into their applications. Its robust design makes it suitable for general instruction-following tasks across various domains, including business applications, multilingual dialog systems, and AI assistants. Users who require the ability to fine-tune models for specific languages or need to handle complex reasoning tasks will find Granite-3.2 particularly beneficial.

ollama pull granite3.2:2b

 


Granite3.1-MoE

Description: The Granite3.1-MoE models, developed by IBM, are advanced long-context mixture of experts (MoE) models designed for low latency usage. Available in 1B and 3B parameter sizes, these models are trained on over 10 trillion tokens, making them highly efficient for on-device applications and scenarios requiring instantaneous inference. They support a wide range of languages including English, German, Spanish, French, and more, and are capable of performing tasks such as summarization, text classification, question-answering, and multilingual dialog.

Where It Excels: Granite3.1-MoE models excel in providing rapid and efficient processing for long-context tasks, such as summarizing lengthy documents or conducting detailed question-answering sessions. Their design is particularly suited for on-device applications, ensuring low latency and high performance in real-time scenarios. Additionally, their multilingual capabilities and support for complex tasks like code-related functions and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) make them versatile tools for developers.

Who Should Use It: These models are ideal for developers and organizations looking for robust solutions to handle extensive language processing tasks with minimal latency. They are particularly beneficial for those working on multilingual applications, real-time data processing, and complex language tasks such as code generation and multilingual dialog systems. Whether for enterprise-level applications or innovative on-device solutions, Granite3.1-MoE models offer the flexibility and power needed by developers to push the boundaries of language technology.

ollama pull granite3.1-moe

 


Command R7B Arabic

Description: Command R7B Arabic is a new state-of-the-art version of the lightweight Command R7B model, designed specifically to excel in advanced Arabic language capabilities. This model is highly efficient and can be deployed on low-end GPUs, MacBooks, or even CPUs, making it an accessible option for businesses. It features a context length of 128k and offers industry-leading performance in its class, particularly in regional language understanding and accuracy with citations using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Its compact size allows businesses to easily scale their Arabic language AI applications to production.

Where It Excels: Command R7B Arabic stands out in its ability to handle advanced Arabic language tasks effectively, making it particularly valuable for enterprises operating in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Its lightweight architecture allows for fast processing and deployment on a variety of hardware setups, without compromising on performance. The model excels in providing accurate regional language understanding and supports strong citation capabilities, making it ideal for applications that require precise information retrieval and generation.

Who Should Use It: This model is ideal for businesses and organizations in the Middle East and Northern Africa that require advanced Arabic language processing capabilities. Enterprises looking to integrate AI into their operations for tasks such as language translation, content generation, or customer support will find Command R7B Arabic particularly beneficial. Additionally, developers and researchers working with Arabic language AI applications can leverage this model's efficiency and accuracy to enhance their projects.

ollama pull command-r7b-arabic

 


C4AI Command R7B

Description: C4AI Command R7B is an advanced 7 billion parameter language model designed to tackle a wide array of tasks, including reasoning, summarization, question answering, and code generation. It is optimized for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and tool use, demonstrating powerful agentic capabilities through the use of multiple tools over multiple steps. This multilingual model supports 23 languages and is particularly effective in enterprise-level code use cases, offering top-tier performance with efficient local context modeling and unrestricted token interactions.

Where It Excels: The C4AI Command R7B model excels in scenarios requiring sophisticated reasoning and complex task execution. Its proficiency in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and tool use makes it ideal for applications that demand high-level problem-solving and dynamic interaction with multiple tools. Additionally, the model is highly effective in multilingual environments, providing robust performance across 23 languages, and is particularly strong in enterprise-related code applications.

Who Should Use It: This model is well-suited for developers and organizations looking to implement advanced AI solutions within their applications, especially those requiring multilingual support and complex task execution. It is ideal for enterprises seeking to enhance their capabilities in areas such as code generation, reasoning, and summarization. Researchers and AI practitioners who require a model with powerful agentic abilities and the flexibility to handle diverse, challenging tasks will find C4AI Command R7B particularly beneficial.

ollama pull command-r7b

 


 

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