Jon Seager, VP engineering for Canonical, has posted
an update on "what Canonical and Ubuntu will do (or not) to
incorporate AI" that explains what part AI will play in the future
of the company and its distribution.

The bottom line is that Canonical is ramping up its use of AI tools
in a focused and principled manner that favours open weight models
with license terms that feel most compatible with our values, combined
with open source harnesses. AI features will be landing in Ubuntu
throughout the next year as we feel that they're of sufficient
maturity and quality, with a bias toward local inference by
default.

AI features in Ubuntu features will come in two forms: first as a
means of enhancing existing OS functionality with AI models in the
background, and latterly in the form of "AI native" features and
workflows for those who want them.

This year Canonical has begun a more deliberate push toward
education and developing competence with AI tools. We are not setting
shallow metrics on token usage, or percentages of code written with
AI, but rather incentivising engineers to experiment and understand
where AI tools add value. Rather than force a single early-choice AI
stack, we're incentivising teams to each pick 'something different'
and go deep, so we learn more as an org in the next six months.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1069944/
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