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Tools: LM Studio
Category: Models and AI infrastructure
Site: lmstudio.ai
LM Studio
A desktop application for running local models, with a server mode that speaks the OpenAI API.
Local models behind the API everything already speaks.
What it is sold for
Running and serving open models from a laptop.
Same shelf
The rest of models and ai infrastructure, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
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- Anthropic's model family, and the one this catalogue's own tooling is written against.
- Claude MCP Servers did not answerA directory of MCP servers. The domain no longer resolves.
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- Image recognition returning natural language descriptions rather than label sets.
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- Mistral's code model, available through their platform and for local deployment under their licence.
ImranTools[LM Studio]