It says this is a separate app than regular LM Studio but I'm not seeing a way to download it. Am I blind?
They hid it well at the bottom of the page: https://lmstudio.ai/
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
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Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#122It was fun to try out which local models made better agents. Few thoughts. * locked to a single dir, so no system wide access. * no local web search, can be fixed ddg or local mcp. * no ssh, I want to have it ssh into my server and do the work. * doesnt show the model being loaded, needs a bar/% counter. * Can you drag/drop documents in the work dirs, or only + add them? I love lm-studio, so cant wait to see how this…
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Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#123Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#124Very exciting, I'll be trying this out soon.
I wish LM Studio played better with AMD hardware. It would be really great to have an off-the-shelf solution that "just works" on Radeon.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#125It says this is a separate app than regular LM Studio but I'm not seeing a way to download it. Am I blind?
They hid it well at the bottom of the page: https://lmstudio.ai/
I still must be blind cuz the main page of lmstudio.ai only says to download LM Studio 0.4.19, which I have already
The word "Bionic" is never mentioned on the homepage
Any other ideas?
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#126This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
based on their apple intelligence demos they are optimizing their products for their core demo of 55-95 year old boomers who talk out loud to think and read every page of the nytimes. you are miles away from the US consumer product experience here.
You say this like it a bad thing my 90yr old grandmother can use WhatsApp and iCloud Photos - if they can get that demographic using LLMs meaningfully, it probably means they’ve cracked the interface.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#127This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
> Does the LLM become another interface to computing? It already is.
It literally is, but people don’t use LLMs to interact with their computers they use touch screens or mouse and a keyboard.
This is why I think it will be the platform owners who end up winning - if iPhone / Mac / iPad ship with a good enough local model that can directly interact with the OS and apps and the web people might actually start talking to their computers.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#128This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
i agree. i believe that for most people on the street, for most tasks, a Chat GPT 3.5 era LLM is sufficient enough. sprinkle in tool calling and other things, and that becomes enough. if you can prioritize that level of a model on-device (baking it in etc), then you can bifurcate AI users between those unwilling to pay and those who are willing to pay A LOT for frontier model performance.
Gemma 4 is already closer to gpt-4o level of intelligence, however it's knowledge is much lower.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#129Why would I use this over any other harness? I suppose they're wrapping it all up in a nice package for enterprise, especially ones that want to control their LLM usage for cost and data security compared to the cloud frontier models.
There’s actually not a lot of good harnesses that aren’t slopped together python or JS codebases, which are actually model-agnostic and don’t do some really silly things like bloating the context, too much compaction etc. There is no way I’m running a python or JS agent which is probably vibe coded, it’s just too much risk from a security and supply chain standpoint.
lol same here, this is what I use
https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante-preview