diff --git a/convert/convert_test.go b/convert/convert_test.go
index 105fbb3d33..95cccd56e3 100644
--- a/convert/convert_test.go
+++ b/convert/convert_test.go
@@ -11,14 +11,13 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"io/fs"
 	"log/slog"
+	"maps"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
-	"golang.org/x/exp/maps"
-
 	"github.com/ollama/ollama/fs/ggml"
 )
 
@@ -137,9 +136,7 @@ func TestConvertModel(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
 
-			keys := maps.Keys(expect)
-			slices.Sort(keys)
-			for _, k := range keys {
+			for _, k := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(expect)) {
 				if v, ok := actual[k]; !ok {
 					t.Errorf("missing %s", k)
 				} else if v != expect[k] {
@@ -343,9 +340,7 @@ func TestConvertAdapter(t *testing.T) {
 
 			actual := generateResultsJSON(t, r, m.KV(), m.Tensors())
 
-			keys := maps.Keys(c.Expected)
-			slices.Sort(keys)
-			for _, k := range keys {
+			for _, k := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(c.Expected)) {
 				if v, ok := actual[k]; !ok {
 					t.Errorf("missing %s", k)
 				} else if v != c.Expected[k] {
diff --git a/convert/reader_safetensors.go b/convert/reader_safetensors.go
index f58585321e..f182a656cc 100644
--- a/convert/reader_safetensors.go
+++ b/convert/reader_safetensors.go
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/fs"
+	"maps"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/d4l3k/go-bfloat16"
 	"github.com/x448/float16"
-	"golang.org/x/exp/maps"
 )
 
 type safetensorMetadata struct {
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ func parseSafetensors(fsys fs.FS, replacer *strings.Replacer, ps ...string) ([]T
 			return nil, err
 		}
 
-		keys := maps.Keys(headers)
-		slices.Sort(keys)
+		keys := slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(headers))
 
 		names := make(map[string]struct{}, len(keys))
 
diff --git a/convert/tokenizer.go b/convert/tokenizer.go
index bedcd4f80a..41d0310a0a 100644
--- a/convert/tokenizer.go
+++ b/convert/tokenizer.go
@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
 	"log/slog"
+	"maps"
 	"os"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
-
-	"golang.org/x/exp/maps"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -260,11 +259,8 @@ func parseVocabularyFromTokenizer(fsys fs.FS) (*Vocabulary, error) {
 		tokens[token.ID] = token
 	}
 
-	keys := maps.Keys(tokens)
-	slices.Sort(keys)
-
 	v := Vocabulary{Model: "gpt2"}
-	for _, k := range keys {
+	for _, k := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(tokens)) {
 		token := tokens[k]
 		v.Tokens = append(v.Tokens, token.Content)
 		v.Scores = append(v.Scores, float32(token.ID))
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index ec3f61bbad..46e7f433fd 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.2.12 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/arch v0.8.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.36.0
-	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20250218142911-aa4b98e5adaa
+	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20250218142911-aa4b98e5adaa // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.38.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.31.0
 	golang.org/x/term v0.30.0
diff --git a/template/template.go b/template/template.go
index 242708f162..d28ace4137 100644
--- a/template/template.go
+++ b/template/template.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"io"
+	"maps"
 	"math"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"text/template/parse"
 
 	"github.com/agnivade/levenshtein"
-	"golang.org/x/exp/maps"
 
 	"github.com/ollama/ollama/api"
 )
@@ -157,9 +157,7 @@ func (t *Template) Vars() []string {
 		set[strings.ToLower(n)] = struct{}{}
 	}
 
-	vars = maps.Keys(set)
-	slices.Sort(vars)
-	return vars
+	return slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(set))
 }
 
 type Values struct {