For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems.

DeepSeek V4 Flash running on Strix Halo has already been possible with the DwarfStar native inference engine. With the newly-released AMD Lemonade 11.8 software, they have now incorporated an experimental DwarfStar "ds4" back-end for streamlining the process. So for those with a Strix Halo system like the Framework Desktop or Ryzen AI Halo, the easy-to-install Lemonade 11.8 makes for a smooth process if wanting to run DeepSeek V4 Flash.

This pull landed the DwarfStar backend with all the details for those interested.

Lemonade 11.8 also adds the RPG-HaloTales-V2 chat model, Flux-2-Klein-4B/9B image models, and new OpenMOSS voice-design and sound-effect speech models to its easy-to-deploy model catalog. There is also a new lemonade update-models command for conveniently updating models. Plus a variety of other enhancements as outlined in the release announcement on GitHub.