“In the early days of Linux, there were thousands of open-source packages that everyone wanted to use, but weren’t integrated and weren’t secure,” Thomas said. “There just wasn’t a support model for it, and so the Red Hats of the world made Linux safe for the enterprise. We want to do a similar thing for AI today.”
While there are plans to eventually introduce a hosted version of Cake, for now companies have to run it in their own environments. For many, this won’t be an issue because data privacy stipulations mean they can’t send data outside their own systems anyway. But a hosted version might be appealing to organizations with lower compliance obligations.
“It is actually easier for us if we can control the cloud,” Herscu added.