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- Both `/api/generate` and `/api/chat` now accept a `"think"`
  option that allows specifying whether thinking mode should be on or
  not
- Templates get passed this new option so, e.g., qwen3's template can
  put `/think` or `/no_think` in the system prompt depending on the
  value of the setting
- Models' thinking support is inferred by inspecting model templates.
  The prefix and suffix the parser uses to identify thinking support is
  also automatically inferred from templates
- Thinking control & parsing is opt-in via the API to prevent breaking
  existing API consumers. If the `"think"` option is not specified, the
  behavior is unchanged from previous versions of ollama
- Add parsing for thinking blocks in both streaming/non-streaming mode
  in both `/generate` and `/chat`
- Update the CLI to make use of these changes. Users can pass `--think`
  or `--think=false` to control thinking, or during an interactive
  session they can use the commands `/set think` or `/set nothink`
- A `--hidethinking` option has also been added to the CLI. This makes
  it easy to use thinking in scripting scenarios like
  `ollama run qwen3 --think --hidethinking "my question here"` where you
  just want to see the answer but still want the benefits of thinking
  models

This change allows the gemma3 template to be autodetected during `ollama
create`.

feat: add new Ollama engine using ggml through cgo

This change introduces a new way to run pretrained models. It introduces 3 high level interfaces and a bunch of smaller helper interfaces to facilitate this.

- `model.Model` defines the interface for a model architecture. Models such as `llama` and `mllama`, which are provided as examples, can implement the model's forward propagation in the `Forward` method. This method will be called to generate completions. This interface can be found in `model/model.go`
- `ml.Backend` defines the interface for a backend tensor library, in this case `ggml`. Among other things, a Backend is responsible for loading a pretrained model into hardware (GPU, CPU, etc) and providing an interface for Models to access loaded tensors. This interface can be found in `ml/backend.go`
- `ml.Tensor` defines the interface for a tensor and tensor operations

This is the first implementation of the new engine. Follow up PRs will implement more features:

- non-greedy sampling (#8410)
- integration with Ollama and KV caching (#8301)
- more model support (#9080) with more coming soon
Co-authored-by: Bruce MacDonald <brucewmacdonald@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: Patrick Devine <patrick@infrahq.com>

Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Yang <mxyng@pm.me>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@ollama.com>

this change is triggered by the presence of "suffix", particularly
useful for code completion tasks

* fix system prompt

* execute template when hitting previous roles

* fix tests

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Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>

This reverts commit 19753c18.

for compat. messages will be added at a later date