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Using local/non-Anthropic LLMs in Claude Desktop on Windows?

I would like to be able to use non-Anthropic and local LLMs in Claude Desktop, and switch seamlessly between Opus and, for example, a local Qwen model. I found a tutorial showing how to do this with Ollama, but the tutorial is for Mac, and Ollama says this isn’t supported on Windows. Have you found…

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  1. 2026-09-20 11:30 · r/ClaudeAI
    Using local/non-Anthropic LLMs in Claude Desktop on Windows?

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