Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer | Red Hat, Inc.
Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer | Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open-source solutions, has announced updates to its AI portfolio designed to accelerate AI solution development and deployment across hybrid cloud environments. The enhancements are part of Red Hat AI, which offers an enterprise platform for model training and inference.
Joe Fernandes, vice president and general manager of the AI Business Unit at Red Hat, stated: "Red Hat knows that enterprises will need ways to manage the rising cost of their generative AI deployments as they bring more use cases to production and run at scale. They also need to address the challenge of integrating AI models with private enterprise data and be able to deploy these models wherever their data may live."
The updated portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI). These tools aim to provide efficient models tailored on business-specific data for deployment across various computing architectures. Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.18 introduces features like distributed serving through vLLM inference server, end-to-end model tuning experiences using InstructLab, and a technology preview of AI Guardrails for enhanced accuracy and performance monitoring.
RHEL AI offers Granite LLMs packaged as a bootable server image for consistent development and deployment across hybrid clouds. It includes support for multilingual inference and new user interfaces for skill contributions.
Airbus Helicopters' advanced analytics manager Régis Lesbarreres commented: "At the outset of our AI journey, Airbus Helicopters was looking to integrate AI into our existing architecture... With Red Hat OpenShift AI, we’ve been able to accomplish all of these goals."
Javier Olaizola Casin from IBM Consulting noted: "Businesses are increasingly applying AI to transform core business processes... Combining IBM Consulting’s domain expertise with Red Hat’s technologies helps clients drive ROI from their technology investments."
Additional perspectives were shared by Torsten Volks from ESG on the importance of rapid deployment capabilities in organizations, while Anand Swamy from HCLTech highlighted the benefits of combining agile infrastructure with Red Hat's offerings.
Red Hat also announced no-cost online training courses aimed at educating users on how to apply AI effectively in business operations.
Both Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.18 and RHEL 1.4 are now available. The company plans further expansion with the upcoming release of Red Hat InstructLab on IBM Cloud.
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