First look: Lemonade serves up local AI with limitations

Lemonade, created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with a variety of runtimes and back-end engines. It supports AMD GPUs, Ryzen NPUs, Vulkan, and CPU execution (although not for all tasks), along with the llama...