Download and run Hugging Face AI models in Ollama
This article explains step by step guide to download an AI model from Hugging Face repository and run it with Ollama. Ollama allows to create a model locally from GGUF format or SafeTensors format and this article will cover both models. Creating from GGUF models is highly reliable as the GGUF file is packaged with model data with template file suitable for the AI model. Running a model using GGUF: Example repository with GGUF formal model https://huggingface.co/sergbese/gemma-3-isv-translator-v5-gguf-bf16 Create a download directory: mkdir gemma-3-isv-translator-v5-gguf-bf16 Download the file into the directory cd gemma-3-isv-translator-v5-gguf-bf16 wget "https://huggingface.co/sergbese/gemma-3-isv-translator-v5-gguf-bf16/resolve/main/gemma-3-finetune-2.BF16.gguf?download=true" -O ./gemma-3-finetune-2.BF16.gguf Create an Ollama model: echo 'FROM ./gemma-3-finetune-2.BF16.gguf' > Modelfile ollama create gemma-3-isv-translator-v5-gguf-bf16:latest Run and verify the ...