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LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Maybe I missed it, but can we use this with other cloud api’s? Like using Deepseek directly from their platform via their OpenAI endpoints?

I was searching for that option as well but didn't find it. I guess it's just a new UI + harness for LMStudio in the end.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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> In any case I am not sure pivoting from running local models to "cloud offering" (as in providing llm inference at their severs) is a sensible choice granted there is already competition in that space and they have no leverage there. I agree. Incidentally, this is exactly what ollama are doing too.

I can definitely see a world where you run stuff local first, for all the reasons we know. Sometimes, you are going to want more powerful models, faster, you’re travelling, etc. You might only use these 5 to 10% of the time, but I’m guessing that’s the market they want.

But one can already switch models in a harness between llm providers. I doubt such a pivot can get some much traction.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Hey everyone! Yagil the founder of LM Studio here. If you want to take Bionic for a spin with GLM 5.2 / Kimi K2.6 / Kimi Coder K2.7, email your lmstudio.ai username to hn-jul16@lmstudio.ai and I'll load your account with some credits! Try it out for coding (in a "Code" project) and document creation / manipulation (in a "Work" project). In Work projects we have automatic checkpointing for every change the agent makes…

Can I use my z.ai coding plan API key?

It’s a standard OAI api so technically should work if the software has byok but would break ZAI ToS. They only allow the tools spelled out on their site

They do update that but with lag

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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I’m worried about the switch in business model here, which is part of the reason I just switched to LM Studio from Ollama. > use the largest frontier open source models through LM Studio Secure Cloud

Indeed though Ollama has had drama from the start while LM studio has had zero to my knowledge. So bit more faith in them pulling off the transition in a mostly graceful manner

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Social progress is literally the story of labor saving devices. Creating more with less labor means a society of relative abundance, with more time for education, creativity, leisure and personal growth. Don't be fooled into thinking LLMs are any different to the tractor, the loom, the calculator, or shoe factories in the third world.

> Social progress is literally the story of labor saving devices. Historically it was not. They are two mostly unrelated things. Creating more with less labor can mean the richest getting richer while middle class becomes poor and poor become hopelessly poor. > Creating more with less labor means a society of relative abundance, with more time for education, creativity, leisure and personal growth. It never meant tha…

Political movements influenced how abundance was shared. They did not create that abundance.

Production and consumption are directly linked: societies can consume only what they produce. When individuals become more productive, society has more to consume. And indeed there is more. So much more. What you call a "fairy tale" is, thankfully, the world we live in.

When considering prosperity, it's important to emphasise what's real. So what if Warren Buffett owns a massive number of shares in notionally highly valued corporations? There are plenty of carrots available in the supermarket, and at an extraordinarily low prices by historical standards. Warren Buffett is not personally consuming some grotesquely disproportionate share of the carrots ... or pretty much any commodity which constitutes real material prosperity.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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I seriously don't understand the apple glazing. They are pretty much completely out of the picture and are one of the most anti consumer anti open-source companies. Yet developers STILL hope for Apple acquisitions and being saved... Or something like that... We have llama.cpp, vLLM, opencode, hermes and countless other mature great open source tools that don't require a anti-consumer company's hands in the jar.

I would guess it's because Apple are a hardware vendor that at least talks about privacy as a selling point. The M series chips provide large amounts of GPU RAM so I think people can see a world where Apple sells local first, privacy focused, inference based on hardware sales. LM Studio's strategy seems to fit that very well.

I would respect Apple's privacy talk if they facilitated running Linux. But it takes years of reverse engineering to get it barely useful on a Mac.

So they put revenue above true privacy, as companies do. But they are the loudest to spit the bs while selling black boxes.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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I am aware of it, and I dabble with Unsloth Studio and use the llama-server approach. I would obviously prefer an open source, open weights stack. But I guess a paradox is that as long as there are open source options I could use, a solid agentic environment that I can use with my own open weights is something I might pay for, in a similar sort of way to paying for a Mac when I could use only Linux. If someone wanted…

I seriously don't understand the apple glazing. They are pretty much completely out of the picture and are one of the most anti consumer anti open-source companies. Yet developers STILL hope for Apple acquisitions and being saved... Or something like that... We have llama.cpp, vLLM, opencode, hermes and countless other mature great open source tools that don't require a anti-consumer company's hands in the jar.

OK. Not sure I agree Opencode is mature, having used it enough and seen the source code, but if that is the level of attention to detail that now qualifies as “mature” then I understand why my comment upset people so much and I apologise.

I think it ought to be possible to understand my comment without assuming it is Apple fandom; it’s not.

(see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805487 for how I feel about brand loyalty)

I am just one of those developers who use Linux daily as a remote/VM work environment, from a MacBook, from personal choice. I have for decades. There is a kubuntu laptop on my desk too (a Framework) which is fine; I have more or less always had GUI linux around too. But my own LLM dabbling is happening on an M1 Max, like so many others, because I am not a gamer or home build PC guy (this century at least) so I don’t have a PC with a GPU. (Yet. I am LLM-cynical but I can see running a dedicated machine for this in principle)

The suggestion about Apple (who I don’t believe are yet “out of the picture” in any meaningful sense) acquiring LM Studio was an idle reflection on them being the most Apple-ish of the options, that’s all. They need something; LM Studio is closest to what they need.

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