Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME

2025-02-04

In Christian F.K. Schaller’s post Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer! he discusses how the Red Hat team is looking into using IBM’s Granite AI models to compliment the development of Fedora Linux and GNOME.

One big item on our list for the year is looking at ways Fedora Workstation can make use of artificial intelligence. […]

We been brainstorming various ideas in the team for how we can make use of AI to provide improved or new features to users of GNOME and Fedora Workstation. […]

… that we offer a good Code Assistant based on Granite and that we come up with other cool integration points.

I’m still not sure how I feel about this approach. While IBM Granite is an open source model, I still don’t enjoy so much artifical “intelligence” creeping into core OS development. It also isn’t mentioned whether this will be optional on the end-users side, like a desktop feature or package. This sounds like it’s going to be used directly in the core system (whether reviewing code/patches, improving existing programs). But who knows. Nothing is 100% clear at this current time.

Red Hat has been pushing hard towards AI and my main concern is having this influence other operating system dev teams. Luckily things seem AI-free in BSD land. For now, at least.