# Hugging Face — Open R1: How to use OlympicCoder locally for coding

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-03-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: OlympicCoder 7B, OlympicCoder, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Qwen-2.5-Coder
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/olympic-coder-lmstudio
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1728-open-r1-how-to-use-olympiccoder-locally-for-coding

This blog post provides a step-by-step guide on setting up OlympicCoder 7B locally using LM Studio and integrating it with VS Code via the Continue extension for coding assistance.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/olympic-coder-lmstudio:

> We will set up OlympicCoder 7B, the smaller of the two OlympicCoder variants, and we’ll use a quantized variant for optimum local inference.

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