Red Hat, an open-source solution provider, announced acquiring Chatterbox Labs, a business that specializes in generative AI (gen AI) guardrails and model-agnostic AI safety.
The acquisition strengthens Red Hat’s efforts to provide a complete, open-source enterprise AI platform designed for the hybrid cloud by adding vital “security for AI” features to the company’s AI portfolio.
This development continues Red Hat AI’s year of rapid innovation, which began with the release of Red Hat AI 3 and Red Hat AI Inference Server.
Red Hat AI is being used by clients worldwide and in a variety of industries to spur creativity through generative, predictive, and generative AI. applications. Businesses face a difficult task as they go from testing to production: implementing models that are not just strong but also verifiable, reliable, and secure.
For contemporary machine learning operations (MLOps), safety and guardrail capabilities are essential. Red Hat and IBM’s dedication to assisting clients in adopting a security-first attitude as they safely scale AI across hybrid cloud environments is shown in this emphasis on security and trust.
Red Hat’s ability to offer production AI workloads with any model, on any accelerator, anywhere is strengthened by the inclusion of Chatterbox Labs’ technology, which creates a single platform with safety built in.
Red Hat’s goal of supporting a variety of models and deployment objectives throughout the hybrid cloud is in line with this acquisition. Additionally, it enhances the forward-thinking features of Red Hat AI 3, particularly for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic AI.
Given the complicated, autonomous function of AI agents and their potential impact on fundamental business processes, trusted and secure models become even more crucial as businesses embrace agentic AI.
