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See the full story · 3 sourcesGo to the 9to5Mac home page Switch site 9to5Toys 9to5Google Logo 9to5Google Electrek Drone DJ Logo DroneDJ Space Explored About Privacy Toggle social menu Toggle dark mode Search for: Submit Toggle search form Forums Store Podcasts Apple@Work Happy Hour 9to5Mac Daily Overtime iPhone iPhone Mac Mac MacBook Pro MacBook Air iMac Mac mini Mac Studio Mac Pro iPad iPad Pro iPad Air iPad mini iPad iPadOS Watch Apple Watch Apple Watch Ultra Apple Health Apple Watch SE Vision Vision Pro visionOS Music and TV Apple Music AirPods HomePod Apple TV Guides Reviews How Tos AAPL Apple Store Apple Arcade Apple Card Apple Silicon Apple One Apple Fitness+ CarPlay Siri HomeKit Toggle dark mode Apps LM Studio LM Studio Bionic adds support for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model Marcus Mendes | Jul 27 2026 - 5:21 pm PT 0 Comments LM Studio’s agentic workflow platform now lets users run tasks with Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1-million-context window. Here are the details.
A few days ago, LM Studio announced Bionic , a new app aimed at users looking to leverage open models for agentic tasks.
Bionic is designed to handle coding, research, and more complex work involving creating or editing documents and files.
Users can run models locally or, when a task requires more computing power, leverage larger cloud-based open-source models that offer longer context windows, and stronger reasoning and tool-calling capabilities that smaller, local models can’t offer (yet).
Bionic is the AI agent for getting real work done with open models, including coding, research, and complex work with documents and files. You can use local models or switch to open-source models in the cloud for heavier tasks, all while staying in control of your privacy and AI spend.
For cloud-based models, Bionic relies on US-based inference with Zero Data Retention. This means that requests are processed on servers in the United States, and that prompts, files, and model outputs are not stored after processing is complete.
Up until now, users relying on cloud-based open models could use DeepSeek V4, Pro, GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.6, and Kimi-K2.7-Code. Today, the company added Kimi K3, giving users access to what many consider the most capable open-source model currently available.
Through Bionic, Kimi K3 is priced at $3 per million input tokens, $0.30 per million cached input tokens, and $15 per million output tokens.
That is a stark contrast to the models previously available, which ranged from $0.95 to $.174 per million input tokens and from $3.48 to $4.50 per million output tokens.
That said, the addition of Kimi K3 is a welcome development, particularly for users looking to tackle more challenging tasks through LM Studio Bionic.
LM Studio Bionic is available for Mac and Windows, and you can learn more about it here .
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Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.
He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.
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