MCP in LM Studio

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227 points yags | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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chisleu ◴[25 Jun 25 17:58 UTC] No.44380098[source]▶

Just ordered a $12k mac studio w/ 512GB of integrated RAM.

Can't wait for it to arrive and crank up LM Studio. It's literally the first install. I'm going to download it with safari.

LM Studio is newish, and it's not a perfect interface yet, but it's fantastic at what it does which is bring local LLMs to the masses w/o them having to know much.

There is another project that people should be aware of: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Exo is this radically cool tool that automatically clusters all hosts on your network running Exo and uses their combined GPUs for increased throughput.

Like HPC environments, you are going to need ultra fast interconnects, but it's just IP based.

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prettyblocks ◴[25 Jun 25 19:20 UTC] No.44380956[source]▶

>>44380098 #

I've been using openwebui and am pretty happy with it. Why do you like lm studio more?

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1. prophesi ◴[25 Jun 25 19:34 UTC] No.44381073[source]▶

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Not OP, but with LM Studio I get a chat interface out-of-the-box for local models, while with openwebui I'd need to configure it to point to an OpenAI API-compatible server (like LM Studio). It can also help determine which models will work well with your hardware.

LM Studio isn't FOSS though.

I did enjoy hooking up OpenWebUI to Firefox's experimental AI Chatbot. (browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost to false, browser.ml.chat.provider to localhost:${openwebui-port})

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