LM Studio

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#13 in ML Frameworks

Desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux to find, download and chat with local models, running GGUF on llama.cpp and MLX on Apple Silicon, with a local API server.

#local-inference#desktop-app#gguf#mlx

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