No country left behind with sovereign AI

About this episode

Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt to discuss digital sovereignty and the challenges of sovereign AI.

Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI. They explore major infrastructure constraints for things like power, cooling, and scarce hardware that cause the regional disparities we see in sovereign AI, plus why we need to extend Kubernetes and integrate PyTorch Stack not just for a sovereign cloud but for sovereign AI. Episode notes:  Red Hat ’s Office of the CTO is a division of 150 software engineers and researchers working on their Research and Emerging Technologies arms, helping to shape the vision and strategy of Red Hat’s technology.  Connect with Stephen on LinkedIn .  Congrats to user Ittiel for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Print timestamps in Docker Compose logs . TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Guest: Stephen Watt

Topics covered

• digital sovereignty
• sovereign AI
• infrastructure constraints
• Kubernetes
• regional disparities

Keywords

• digital sovereignty
• sovereign AI
• infrastructure
• Kubernetes
• PyTorch

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Red Hat, Red Hat’s Office of the CTO

Products: Kubernetes, PyTorch Stack

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