This wasn’t about integrating commercial AI, or even AI generated code, but supporting local, open weights AI.
Fedora has approved its own AI Developer Desktop initiative with a unanimous council vote. Three Atomic Desktop images are planned, two of them CUDA-enabled, and none of them would be phoning home to cloud services. source
Personally I saw it as a positive, when only criminals corpos have guns AI etc. Local only alternatives should be encouraged.
This is the correct way to do AI, use it when possible locally, without gate keeping its secrets and without violating user’s privacy. If AI is here to stay, I would much rather have alternatives like this than couple tech oligarchs dominating the whole field.
This wasn’t about integrating commercial AI, or even AI generated code, but supporting local, open weights AI.
Personally I saw it as a positive, when only
criminalscorpos havegunsAI etc. Local only alternatives should be encouraged.This is the correct way to do AI, use it when possible locally, without gate keeping its secrets and without violating user’s privacy. If AI is here to stay, I would much rather have alternatives like this than couple tech oligarchs dominating the whole field.