Friday Five — May 17, 2024

RedMonk - InstructLab: What if Contributing to Models Was Easy?

InstructLab, an open source community built around the Large-scale Alignment for chatBots (LAB) method and open source Granite models from IBM, is designed to lower the barriers to model contributions in order to accelerate AI innovation and foster enhanced model abilities, coverage and breadth. Learn more

Fast Company - This company wants to measure exactly how much carbon is in your cloud

Red Hat’s Kepler, or Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter, is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards. Huamin Chen, senior principal software engineer at Red Hat, explains how Kepler provides an easy-to-use software project to help measure energy consumption and assess the carbon impact of cloud workloads. Learn more

ITOps Times - AI at the Industrial Edge: Where It’s At and Where It’s Going

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been effectively used across industries and platforms, including the industrial edge, for some time. Now, Francis Chow, vice president and general manager of In-Vehicle Operating System and Edge at Red Hat, underscores how organizations can further accelerate AI at the edge to transform legacy systems and modernize applications. Learn more

CIO - Red Hat seeks to shrink IT skills gap with Lightspeed gen AI

Building on the success of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, Red Hat is extending generative AI (GenAI) capabilities across its portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to help IT leaders address critical skills gaps in the datacenter and cloud. Learn more

Migrate and modernize virtual machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Dell APEX Cloud Platform

Red Hat and Dell are collaborating to provide a next-generation platform and migration strategy for virtual machines (VMs) using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift to help simplify how companies can deploy and manage their VMs. Learn more