# Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations > Source: > Published: 2026-07-23 11:58:00+00:00 # Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs. Going along with the recent Ryzen AI Software 1.8 also now supports running larger models on low-memory systems, better Whisper.cpp integration, and more. This is quite a big update with the last Ryzen AI Software release having been back in January. Downloads and more details on today's Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release can be found via Going along with the recent [Lemonade local AI server updates](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.5)and other AMD open-source AI software releases, today brings the release of Ryzen AI Software 1.8. This Ryzen AI "RAI" software release primarily is about supporting newer models and shipping more optimizations. A variety of new large language models are supported, new text-to-speech model support, new embedding model support, and new translation model support. Plus a variety of Stable Diffusion model updates too with performance optimizations.Ryzen AI Software 1.8 also now supports running larger models on low-memory systems, better Whisper.cpp integration, and more. This is quite a big update with the last Ryzen AI Software release having been back in January. Downloads and more details on today's Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release can be found via