Friday Five — March 13, 2026

vLLM Semantic Router: Signal driven decision routing for mixture-of-modality models

As LLMs diversify across modalities, capabilities and cost profiles, the problem of intelligent request routing—selecting the right model for each query at inference time—has become a critical systems challenge. Red Hat is collaborating in the upstream community to deliver vLLM Semantic Router, a signal-driven decision routing framework for Mixture-of-Modality (MoM) model deployments. Learn more

Techstrong.ai - Red Hat Extends AI Reach Deeper into the Enterprise

Red Hat is delivering a stable, reliable foundation to scale AI deployments with Red Hat AI Enterprise and the new Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, further extending the reach of AI across the hybrid cloud. Learn more

Scaling the future of Open RAN: Red Hat joins the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation

At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most complex challenges in technology are best solved through open collaboration. This week, as announced by the Linux Foundation, Red Hat has officially joined the OCUDU (Open Centralized Unit / Distributed Unit) Ecosystem Foundation as a general member. Learn more

Fierce Network - Red Hat drives toward cloud-native and AI-ready telcos

Catch up on the latest news from Red Hat at the recent MWC Barcelona 2026 event, focused on the broad shift toward open, scalable and AI-capable infrastructure across global service providers. Learn more

How does real-world AI deliver value? The Ask Red Hat example

Last year, we introduced Ask Red Hat as a conversational AI designed to be an intelligent front door for our customers. It began as a rapid 12-week build to prove that open source AI could transform the support experience. Today, Ask Red Hat has evolved from a proof of concept into a sophisticated production reality. Learn more