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Red Hat CTO. Passion for open source SW innovation. Father and husband. Cyclist. Human.

Boston, MA
Joined May 2012
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I left #NVIDIAGTC last week feeling energized and excited about our ongoing work with @NVIDIA, including the expanded updates to @RedHat AI Factory with NVIDIA! red.ht/4siP7v9
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Looking forward to joining the #NVIDIAGTC keynote pregame on AI Safety & Security. Tune in tomorrow!
5 chapters. 17 industry experts. A look at Europe’s AI future. Meet the voices setting the stage at the #NVIDIAGTC Berlin keynote pregame show, exploring sovereign AI, enterprise intelligence, AI safety, AI factories, physical AI, and the growth engines shaping Europe’s future. Watch live October 21 at 9 a.m. CEST → nvda.ws/4i4Zqy2
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When measuring open source security, counting vulnerabilities only tells part of the story. Real risk depends on context, attack paths, and how fast reusable fixes can travel through the software ecosystem. Check out the new Open Source Security Signals: red.ht/4s7mAIK
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Spot on. Theory is easy... real-world production takes work. The strength of open source is that it gives enterprises the flexibility and choice to bring AI models directly to where their data lives. Great seeing how our teams are proving this out every day!
Enterprise AI isn't built on theory; it's built in production. See how we turn complex business challenges into real-world experience at @RedHat with our AI agents for sales (red.ht/4yge2Bb) and enterprise data (red.ht/3SCD3HF).
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Exciting moment for Open Source AI!
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI. Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me. NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗 blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia…
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Securing AI is a software engineering challenge. When we isolate tech behind closed doors, we shift risk rather than solving it. Read my latest blog on why open source models, agentic harnesses, and transparent sandboxing are essential for IT security: red.ht/4waaMWo.
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AI has drawn a lot of attention to cybersecurity. The response is strongest as a community. The Open Secure AI Alliance is moving fast. Important effort on incident response: linuxfoundation.org/blog/pro… A ton of activity outlined in @nvidia's blog: blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-s…
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Great example of an open platform and an open weights model like Kimi K3. The results are impressive!
Kimi K3 open weights landed yesterday. By that afternoon, Red Hat AI Inference was serving it on one 8x B300 node. 2.8T params. Day-0 preview images exist so you can experiment the moment weights drop. 👇
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Proud to see @RedHat join as an inaugural partner in the Open Secure AI Alliance alongside @NVIDIA and other industry leaders! To make AI safe and ready for production, we need openness and broad community participation across the whole stack.
Red Hat is proud to join @NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance to advance safety, transparency, and open tooling. Red Hat CTO @kernelcdub highlights how we're delivering enterprise infrastructure that can be trusted for the road ahead: red.ht/4bgy4lZ
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Preparing for Q-Day isn't just about future-proofing encryption. It’s about getting your hybrid cloud architecture in order today. Cool to see this step-by-step framework on how to prepare your systems for post-quantum cryptography: red.ht/3TwMmc5.
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To make agentic AI actually work at scale, we have to shift from just consuming tokens to providing them. Owning your inference infrastructure is the only way you're going to scale this cost-effectively without getting locked in. Watch more on @RedHat TV: red.ht/4fi3Tfs
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Open source is the foundation of innovation, and defending it requires a coordinated, upstream community response at scale. That's why we're joining the @LinuxFoundation and industry leaders to launch Akrites.
@kernelcdub says it best: “Open source is the foundation of modern software innovation. Defending that foundation requires a coordinated, upstream community response capable of meeting threats at scale. Red Hat’s participation in Akrites focuses on strengthening this upstream ecosystem. By collaborating openly to identify and patch vulnerabilities at the source, we help build a more resilient software supply chain for the entire industry.” ↓
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Enjoyed talking to @TechZine about how we are scaling enterprise AI. From bare metal all the way up to agentic workflows, the goal is to give you complete choice of models, clouds, and hardware without the threat of closed source lock-in: techzine.eu/blogs/infrastruc….
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The challenge for enterprises today is their ability to consume and deploy fixes fast enough. Read my blog on how Project Lightwell scales backporting to eliminate isolated engineering efforts, and let's discuss how we collectively drive this upstream-always approach.
Is open source too risky for the enterprise? Black-box proprietary software lets vulnerabilities breed in darkness. Open source relies on transparency and collective motivation. Learn how Project Lightwell from @IBM and Red Hat helps organizations secure their supply chains together: red.ht/4a3IftA
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Thanks to Steve Watt for being my first guest on the new season of Technically Speaking! We dive into how we look at emerging tech roadmaps and where we place our internal technology bets at @RedHat: red.ht/49ztcHR.
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Agentic AI "thinking" now costs 20x more in tokens. To scale agents, you must move from consuming tokens to providing them by owning your inference on an open stack. Get frontier power without losing security or control. My thoughts from #RHSummit: red.ht/4uBG5sN
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Moving AI from experiment to production takes a sovereign foundation across the hybrid cloud. Our work with @NVIDIA gives enterprises the architectural control and open innovation needed to scale agentic AI with confidence. Own your intelligence! #RHSummit
We’re industrializing enterprise AI with @NVIDIA with: 🐚 OpenShell project collaboration for autonomous agents 🔧 Dev roadmap for Day 0 Vera Rubin support 🔐 Hardware-enforced security with confidential containers 📦 Lifecycle management and Model-as-a-Service 💥 Validated, co-developed AI Blueprints and quickstarts Read the #RHSummit news: red.ht/48PBL0J
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From our work with @voyagertech_ on the @Space_Station to @NASA's JPL, seeing open source power deep space exploration is so inspiring. At #RHSummit, we’re showing how Red Hat provides the stability & choice needed to move from experimentation into production—wherever that may be
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Looking forward to connecting with our incredible ecosystem of partners and customers at #RHSummit to talk about how we're moving AI from experimentation into production. Let’s dive into the future of open source together!
The future of enterprise IT isn't a vague concept—it's being built in Atlanta. This week, join the people behind the platforms you rely on at #RHSummit to unlock what’s next. No jargon. Just the practical steps to move your business forward. We’re here and ready to start the week. Let’s get to work!
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