Element Labs makes LM Studio, a desktop application for downloading and running language models on a local computer, with a chat interface and a local API server. It also publishes llmster, a headless version of LM Studio for servers, the lms command-line tool, and Python and TypeScript SDKs.1574
Using this organization’s offerings
Intended users
LM Studio is presented for running models on one's own computer; llmster and the SDKs are presented for developers building applications and services on a local or headless LM Studio instance.57
Hosted and self-hosted access
The desktop app is a free download licensed for personal and internal business use, with some paid features; llmster installs by script; the SDKs install from PyPI and npm.4378
Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Open models
What is and isn’t public
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| LM Studio (external site: lmstudio.ai) | Developer tool | Proprietary desktop app, free to download, for Apple Silicon Macs (macOS 14 or newer), Windows (x64 and ARM), and Linux (x64 and ARM64). It runs models locally with llama.cpp (GGUF) and, on Apple Silicon, MLX, and serves them through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Its terms license it for personal and internal business use and say some features are paid.4563 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| llmster and the lms CLI (external site: lmstudio.ai) | Developer tool | llmster is LM Studio's core packaged as a daemon for servers, cloud instances, and CI, installed with a shell or PowerShell script. The lms command-line tool, published under the MIT License, starts the daemon, downloads models, and runs the local server.7411 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| LM Studio SDKs (lmstudio-python and lmstudio-js) (external site: lmstudio.ai) | Developer tool | MIT-licensed Python (pip install lmstudio) and TypeScript (npm @lmstudio/sdk) libraries for building applications that use a computer running LM Studio in the foreground or in headless mode.971213 | Oct 1, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
No artifact records in this catalog list Element Labs. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.
Notable documented facts
- LM Studio for Mac bundles mlx-engine, an MIT-licensed engine in the lmstudio-ai GitHub organization that runs text and vision models with Apple's MLX. Its README documents a standalone demo for macOS 14 or later with Python 3.11; the repository has no tagged releases.141516
- LM Studio's privacy policy says that when models are downloaded and run locally, messages, chat histories, and documents are saved on the user's device and are not transmitted from it.2
In the news
LM Studio introduces Bionic, a separate agent app for open models
LM Studio introduced LM Studio Bionic on July 16, 2026, describing it as an AI agent made for open models. The post says Bionic is a new, separate app from LM Studio, that local models in it are powered by the LM Studio runtime, and that it can also use large open models through LM Studio Secure Cloud, which requires an LM Studio account with billing. Described uses include coding, document and file work, and research. The post does not say whether Bionic's software is open source. USASI has not tested this app.
Open positions
6 recently confirmed positions in this catalog.
Last successful source check: Oct 15, 2026, 12:31 PM UTC
What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
LM Studio's careers page says LM Studio is built by Element Labs in New York, USA. The privacy policy identifies Element Labs, Inc. as a Delaware corporation with a registered address in Wilmington, Delaware, and the app terms choose New York law, with actions brought in New York County or federal court in New York. No foreign parent or headquarters was found.123
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