Lemony launched a simple-looking device to deliver on-premise artificial intelligence to redefine how organizations deploy generative AI.
Lemony’s secure, hardware-based node offers enterprise-grade ‘AI in a Box,’ empowering companies to run advanced, end-to-end AI workflows privately, instantly, and without cloud dependence. Lemony has secured a $2M seed funding round led by True Ventures.
Lemony’s AI nodes are stackable and scalable, creating small, modular AI compute clusters that support seamless expansion across users. Lemony can host the entire technology stack, from foundation models to lightweight, specialized agents, and gives businesses the power of secure, on-premise AI that will allow them to grow and scale. Imagine activating thousands of emails, PDFs, and other files that were previously nearly impossible to access. Lemony activates previously dormant company data, securely, at scale.
The result is a flexible, powerful system that grows with a company’s AI ambitions, Lemony said. While the device looks like a toy, it has enterprise-grade technology, the company said.
Sascha Buehrle, cofounder and CEO, said in a message to GamesBeat that the founders saw the growing struggle of bringing AI infrastructure into data centers.
“Unlike traditional server setups, generative AI hardware mostly requires water cooling and specialized power configurations, leading to massive upfront investments, a lot of special knowledge required and super lengthy approval and planning processes,” Buehrle said. “At the same time, we witnessed how cloud-based data and user prompts are increasingly treated as fuel for training the next generation of models, especially now that most publicly available datasets have already been consumed.”
He added, “That’s why we said: businesses need a fast, simple way to adopt generative AI, without the fear, friction, or risks and what teams can decide for without lengthy processes and big upfront investments and with the ease of the cloud but in a safe plug and play environment.”
Lemony said it offers a fearless, refreshingly simple solution: a powerful, on-premise AI device with sophisticated AI models that requires no specialized knowledge. It was specifically designed to address the inherent privacy and compliance risks of cloud-based AI while democratizing access to this powerful technology.
Lemony empowers every organization to participate in the AI revolution on their own terms to make internal knowledge accessible, searchable and usable across teams. Lemony brings plug-and-play AI, the power of large language models (LLMs), adaptors, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), directly to the desktop. It is exceptionally easy to use: employees simply plug it into their computer or local network, upload their reference documents, and they are ready to go.
“We built Lemony to make enterprise AI simple, cost-effective, and secure,” said Buehrl. “Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between capability and control. Lemony delivers both, right out of the box.”
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