Telenor has chosen Red Hat’s cloud-native and AI platforms to power its sovereign AI factory, powered by Nvidia.
The latest Telenor AI Factory offering provides high performance hardware and innovative AI models while maintaining national control over data and processes.
With this collaboration, Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory intend to make it faster and easier for organisations to realise AI business value by smoothing the flow from AI blueprints to actual production.
“We are building Telenor AI Factory for flexibility and portability, no lock-in, and Red Hat is a key part of this with its open software and principles,” says Kaaren Hilsen, CEO of Telenor AI Factory.
Telenor AI Factory provides a scalable, security-focused infrastructure optimised for AI and other compute-intensive tasks able to process sensitive data in-region. Its architecture of GPUs, low-latency networking and high-performance storage is based on Nvidia’s reference architecture.
Telenor AI Factory selected Red Hat OpenShift AI as the core environment for building, training and deploying AI-based agents and applications, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows with LlamaStack.
Red Hat Consulting supported Telenor AI Factory in designing and implementing an architecture capable of delivering AI services to external companies, from resource provisioning to multi-tenancy to data sovereignty.
OpenShift AI pairs with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus to form the common cloud-native foundation for Telenor AI Factory, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automates the creation, management and scalability of operations.
Red Hat’s support for any model, on any hardware, across any environment gives Telenor AI Factory and its customers extensive flexibility to deploy applications and workloads with their preferred tools, libraries and hardware, fulfilling many of the demands for sovereign AI.
This choice and control also enables Telenor AI Factory and its customers to optimise performance by improving GPU utilisation and potential profitability for demanding AI workloads.
Additionally, Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support for European Union offers dedicated technical support from within the EU, providing new levels of operational sovereignty when it comes to supporting critical operations.
By standardising on Red Hat technologies, Telenor AI Factory and its customers gain a vendor-neutral foundational layer of technology that abstracts away hardware complexity and eases portability.
This provides sovereignty across the spectrum of enterprise IT, starting with the transparency and auditability of open source. As the crux of Red Hat’s technology stack, open source software delivers freedom of choice, enabling organisations to see the code, verify it and readily understand it.
Red Hat OpenShift AI streamlines AI model lifecycles, bringing together data scientists, AI engineers and app developers on the same platform. This promotes collaboration, operational consistency and production scalability.
Telenor AI Factory’s IT teams can manage both traditional applications and AI workloads side-by-side, helping avoid operational silos, reduce costs and improve overall agility.