Friday Five — March 13, 2026

Friday Five — March 13, 2026 vLLM Semantic Router: Signal driven decision routing for mixture-of-modality models Techstrong. ai - Red Hat Extends AI Reach Deeper into the Enterprise Scaling the future of Open RAN: Red Hat joins the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation Fierce Network - Red Hat drives toward cloud-native and AI-ready telcos How does real-world AI deliver value? The Ask Red Hat example About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Enable intelligent insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server Fedora 44 Beta now available Post-quantum Cryptography | Compiler Understanding AI Security Frameworks | Compiler Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share As LLMs diversify across modalities, capabilities and cost profiles, the problem of intelligent request routing—selecting the right model for each query at inference time—has become a critical systems challenge. Red Hat is collaborating in the upstream community to deliver vLLM Semantic Router, a signal-driven decision routing framework for Mixture-of-Modality (MoM) model deployments. Learn more Red Hat is delivering a stable, reliable foundation to scale AI deployments with Red Hat AI Enterprise and the new Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, further extending the reach of AI across the hybrid cloud. Learn more At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most complex challenges in technology are best solved through open collaboration. This week, as announced by the Linux Foundation, Red Hat has officially joined the OCUDU (Open Centralized Unit / Distributed Unit) Ecosystem Foundation as a general member. Learn more Catch up on the latest news from Red Hat at the recent MWC Barcelona 2026 event, focused on the broad shift toward open, scalable and AI-capable infrastructure across global service providers. Learn more Last year, we introduced Ask Red Hat as a conversational AI designed to be an intelligent front door for our customers. It began as a rapid 12-week build to prove that open source AI could transform the support experience. Today, Ask Red Hat has evolved from a proof of concept into a sophisticated production reality. Learn more Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.