WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.510 --> 00:00:03.990 Now in order to work with LM Studio 2 00:00:03.990 --> 00:00:06.646 or to use it, we of course need to install it 3 00:00:06.646 --> 00:00:09.180 and you can simply Google for LM Studio 4 00:00:09.180 --> 00:00:12.870 or directly visit LMStudio.ai. 5 00:00:12.870 --> 00:00:15.780 And from that website you can download 6 00:00:15.780 --> 00:00:18.600 LM Studio for your system. 7 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.210 And it is supported on Mac OS, 8 00:00:21.210 --> 00:00:22.590 which is what I'm using here, 9 00:00:22.590 --> 00:00:25.293 but also for Windows and Linux. 10 00:00:26.868 --> 00:00:27.960 If you click on download here, 11 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.030 you should also be taken to a screen 12 00:00:30.030 --> 00:00:33.810 where you can configure and choose your operating system 13 00:00:33.810 --> 00:00:36.180 and your variation of the operating system 14 00:00:36.180 --> 00:00:38.370 and which version you wanna download, 15 00:00:38.370 --> 00:00:41.670 if there are any options regarding that. 16 00:00:41.670 --> 00:00:44.520 So if it did select the wrong operating system 17 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:46.650 for you here on that starting screen, 18 00:00:46.650 --> 00:00:48.090 which typically should not happen, 19 00:00:48.090 --> 00:00:50.100 but if it did not auto detect 20 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:52.020 your operating system correctly, 21 00:00:52.020 --> 00:00:54.210 you can always go to this download page 22 00:00:54.210 --> 00:00:57.633 and manually choose a different system. 23 00:00:58.500 --> 00:00:59.520 And then from there, 24 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.900 you can download LM Studio or the installer for LM Studio, 25 00:01:03.900 --> 00:01:06.960 and then of course, walk through the installation process 26 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:10.173 to install the LM Studio tool on your system. 27 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.030 Now, once you did download and install LM Studio, 28 00:01:15.030 --> 00:01:16.470 you can start it. 29 00:01:16.470 --> 00:01:17.880 And once you did that, 30 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:20.850 you should see some screen like this. 31 00:01:20.850 --> 00:01:24.960 Now the exact look and feel can of course change over time, 32 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:27.765 but in general you should have a main chat window. 33 00:01:27.765 --> 00:01:32.250 You should have a list of all your chats 34 00:01:32.250 --> 00:01:34.590 so that you can go back to older chats. 35 00:01:34.590 --> 00:01:36.780 Initially, of course, that's empty. 36 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:39.240 You should find a model loader 37 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:40.950 somewhere on your screen. 38 00:01:40.950 --> 00:01:44.490 That's how we can load models for local usage, 39 00:01:44.490 --> 00:01:46.263 and we'll do that together soon. 40 00:01:47.310 --> 00:01:50.220 You will very likely also be able to switch 41 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:51.870 between different modes. 42 00:01:51.870 --> 00:01:53.940 At the point of time where I'm recording this, 43 00:01:53.940 --> 00:01:56.760 we got user, power user and developer mode. 44 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.673 And I'll get back to these modes later in this section. 45 00:02:00.750 --> 00:02:02.250 And you should also be able 46 00:02:02.250 --> 00:02:05.040 to access the settings of LM Studio. 47 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.350 Again, the exact look and structure 48 00:02:07.350 --> 00:02:09.690 of this main screen can change over time, 49 00:02:09.690 --> 00:02:12.360 but these features should all be there 50 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.000 somewhere in that tool. 51 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.700 And it's also under these settings here, by the way, 52 00:02:17.700 --> 00:02:21.000 under app settings, where you can, for example, 53 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.940 choose the language of LM Studio 54 00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:25.905 and switch to a different language 55 00:02:25.905 --> 00:02:29.520 and where you can also configure the look and feel. 56 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:31.890 For example, whether you want to use dark mode, 57 00:02:31.890 --> 00:02:33.900 sepia mode, light mode, 58 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:36.840 automatically detect that based on your system preferences 59 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:38.760 and so on. 60 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:41.460 Now, there may be more options at the point of time 61 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:44.340 where you are viewing this video, 62 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:47.640 but the default options should generally work for you. 63 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:49.230 And you can and should of course, 64 00:02:49.230 --> 00:02:51.200 tweak the color theme at the look and feel 65 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:53.880 of your personal preferences. 66 00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:56.640 And therefore, that's LM Studio installed. 67 00:02:56.640 --> 00:02:59.100 As a next step, we now need to download 68 00:02:59.100 --> 00:03:01.470 and install an open model, 69 00:03:01.470 --> 00:03:03.150 which we wanna run on our system 70 00:03:03.150 --> 00:03:05.610 so that we can then interact with it 71 00:03:05.610 --> 00:03:07.503 through LM Studio.