One of the key items for the year is exploring how Fedora Workstation can leverage AI. Thanks to IBM's Granite effort, there is now an AI engine available under proper open-source licensing terms, capable of being extended for various use cases. The IBM Granite team has an aggressive plan to release updated versions of Granite, incorporating features of special interest to developers, such as making Granite an excellent engine for powering IDEs and similar tools.

The Red Hat team has been brainstorming various ideas on how to use AI to provide improved or new features to users of GNOME and Fedora Workstation. This includes ensuring Fedora Workstation users have access to tools like RamaLama, simplifying the setup of accelerated AI inside Toolbx, offering a robust Code Assistant based on Granite, and coming up with other innovative integration points.

However, since this is Linux, you will have issues of fanboys not liking the approach (much in the same way as fanboys don't like modern Dr Who or Star Trek). Designer/developer and blogger Bradley Taunt expressed reservations, writing, "While IBM Granite is an open source model, I still don't enjoy so much artificial 'intelligence' creeping into core OS development. This also isn't something optional on the end-users side, like a desktop feature or package. This sounds like it's going to be built directly into the core system."

Taunt also raised concerns about Red Hat's push towards AI potentially influencing other operating system development teams.

He said: "Luckily things seem AI-free in BSD land. For now, at least."