tl;dr: LM Studio has launched Bionic, a separate AI agent app designed for open models that handles coding, document work, and research tasks. It supports local model execution, cloud inference via LM Studio Secure Cloud (with zero data retention), and includes offline voice transcription powered by Mistral's Voxtral, along with agentic code search, sandboxed document workflows, and automatic checkpoints. Users can switch between local and frontier open-source models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code to balance cost and capability.