India a key part of our global distribution: Red Hat CTO Chris Wright

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions, believes proprietary closed AI models have overlooked enterprises’ need for protecting sensitive data. The subsidiary of IBM and the champion of open-source offers ‘bring-your-own-model’ service and provides a platform to test, tune and evaluate models. Offering these services globally, through a special AI division in India, is the next big focus for Red Hat, chief technology officer Chris Wright tells ET’s Himanshi Lohchab in an exclusive chat. Edited excerpts: