Friday Five — January 17, 2025

ZDNet - Red Hat bets big on AI with its Neural Magic acquisition

Red Hat has completed its acquisition of Neural Magic, a pioneer in software and algorithms that accelerate gen AI inference workloads, helping further the company’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to unique customer use cases, wherever needed across the hybrid cloud. Learn more

Red Hat Unveils Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine is a new edition of Red Hat OpenShift focused exclusively on virtualization workloads to provide a tailored option for deploying, managing and scaling VMs, removing features unrelated to VM management. Learn more

Business Reporter - The AI-ification of business models

AI has quickly become a business imperative for enterprises to remain competitive and support customer demand. Andrew Brown, Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at Red Hat, explores how organizations can create a strategic AI roadmap to set themselves up for the future. Learn more

Fine Tuning Large Language Models with InstructLab

Want to get more out of your language models? This video demonstrates how to fine-tune LLMs using InstructLab, an open source tool that can help customize and specialize them for specific tasks, to help organizations more easily tackle complex tasks, automate repetitive work and unlock insights to solve real-world problems. Learn more

Red Hat Extends Discount for OpenShift Virtualization Certification and Training

Looking to migrate and modernize virtualized workloads? Kickstart your skills development with the "Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization" course and exam bundle at 70% off, now through September 30, 2025. Learn more