Don't be deadset on using LM Studio when there is a great alternative, llama.cpp, that does everything you need without the extra bloat.

LM Studio’s Locally app is being updated today with LM Link, a feature that lets users talk to LLMs running on their Macs right from their iPhones. Here are the details. LM Studio is my go-to Mac app ...

Google is bringing its AI Edge Gallery app to macOS, letting Apple Silicon Macs run Gemma models entirely offline.

Want AI on your phone without cloud limits? Models like Llama 3.2, Qwen3, Gemma 3, and SmolLM2 run locally for private chats, coding, reasoning, and image tasks. Llama 3.2 is the best all-rounder, ...

Someone fine-tuned Claude Fable 5's reasoning style into a local Qwen model, creating Qwable. Then someone else removed its ...