By Mr.QOn

LM Studio

  • Download and Install LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai)
  • Start LM Studio, then go to Discover
  • Search and download “DeepSeek R1 Distill (Llama 8B)”
  • Try to load the downloaded model and test with Chat (in LM Studio)

LM Studio Developer

  • In LM Studio, go to Developer tab.
  • Select the download model to load
  • Then click Start (click on toggle)
  • Check the logs to ensure the server is running

VS Code

  • Start VS Code
  • Install “Continue – Codestral, Claude, and more” (from continue.dev)
  • Open “Continue” extension from the left menu
  • Click the settings icon to open “Continue config” (in JSON format)
  • Update config as below
{
  "models": [
    {
      "model": "deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b",
      "provider": "lmstudio",
      "apiKey": "EMPTY",
      "title": "DeepSeek R1 8B"
    }
  ],
  "tabAutocompleteModel": {
    "title": "DeepSeek R1 8B",
    "provider": "lmstudio",
    "model": "deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b",
    "apiKey": "EMPTY"
  },
  ...
}

  • Ask a question to verify connection to LM Studio Server