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Yagil Burowski

LM Studio team member; made the first commits to LM Studio's lms CLI and MLX engine repositories

Yagil Burowski is on the LM Studio team at Element Labs, which makes LM Studio, a desktop app for downloading and running language models locally with llama.cpp and, on Apple silicon Macs, Apple's MLX. Burowski made the first commits to two of LM Studio's MIT-licensed repositories: lms, the command-line tool that ships with the app, in April 2024, and mlx-engine, its MLX engine, in October 2024. Burowski co-wrote the October 2024 post announcing that LM Studio 0.3.4 shipped the MLX engine and wrote the July 2025 post announcing that the app had become free to use at work.13469581011

Work

  • lms (LM Studio CLI) (external site: github.com)

    Made the repository's initial commit on 2024-04-15 and continues to author commits. The README describes lms as the command-line tool for LM Studio that ships with LM Studio 0.2.22 and newer. MIT-licensed.675

  • mlx-engine (external site: github.com)

    Made the initial commit on 2024-10-07 to mlx-engine, LM Studio's MIT-licensed Apple MLX engine, and co-wrote the post announcing that LM Studio 0.3.4 shipped it for running models on-device on Apple silicon Macs, through the chat UI or a local OpenAI-like server.9810

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Sources · reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  1. 1.
    Yagil Burowski • LM Studio Hub (external site: lmstudio.ai)

    Element Labs (LM Studio) · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  2. 2.
    yagil (Yagil Burowski) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  3. 3.
    Careers at LM Studio ("LM Studio is built by Element Labs") (external site: lmstudio.ai)

    Element Labs (LM Studio) · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  4. 4.
    Welcome to LM Studio Docs! | LM Studio (external site: lmstudio.ai)

    Element Labs (LM Studio) · Documentation · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  5. 5.
    lmstudio-ai/lms README and license (MIT) (external site: github.com)

    Element Labs (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  6. 6.
    lmstudio-ai/lms — initial commit (2024-04-15) (external site: github.com)

    Element Labs (GitHub repository) · Repository · published Apr 15, 2024 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  7. 7.
    lmstudio-ai/lms commits authored by yagil (external site: github.com)

    Element Labs (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  8. 8.
    lmstudio-ai/mlx-engine README and license (MIT) (external site: github.com)

    Element Labs (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  9. 9.
    lmstudio-ai/mlx-engine — initial commit (2024-10-07) (external site: github.com)

    Element Labs (GitHub repository) · Repository · published Oct 7, 2024 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  10. 10.
    LM Studio 0.3.4 ships with Apple MLX (external site: lmstudio.ai)

    Element Labs (LM Studio) · Announcement · published Oct 8, 2024 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  11. 11.
    LM Studio is free for use at work (external site: lmstudio.ai)

    Element Labs (LM Studio) · Announcement · published Jul 8, 2025 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

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