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Getting Started with LM Studio: Run AI on Your Own Machine

Jun 25, 2026

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3 min read

Getting Started with LM Studio: Run AI on Your Own Machine

LM Studio is the gentlest way into local AI. It downloads open models and runs them on your own computer, with no account, no cloud, and no per-token bill. Here is how to install it, pick a model that fits your machine, and start chatting in about ten minutes.

Bartlomiej Slodyczka

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Run the Claude Desktop App on a Local Model with LM Studio

Jun 24, 2026

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4 min read

Run the Claude Desktop App on a Local Model with LM Studio

Claude Desktop has a mode that lets you point it at a model that is not Anthropic's. I wired it to LM Studio running on my own machine, fully offline, with no Claude account. It works.

Bartlomiej Slodyczka

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Jun 20, 2026

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I ran GLM-5.2 locally on a Mac Studio

I put GLM-5.2 on a Mac Studio with 512 GB of memory and ran it fully offline. The model is 368 GB, which leaves almost no room to work in. Here is the setup that loaded it, the speed it ran at, the crash that took it down twice, and an honest read on the coding output.

Bartlomiej Slodyczka

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Getting Started with LM Studio: Run AI on Your Own Machine

Run the Claude Desktop App on a Local Model with LM Studio

I ran GLM-5.2 locally on a Mac Studio

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