With the announcement of the acquisition of Chatterbox Labs. Red Hat has positioned the move as a step to augment the company’s AI security capabilities. Red Hat’s transition to AI security is consistent with the company’s focus on a trusted and transparent enterprise AI. Besides that, the deal extends AI security to the hybrid and multicloud environments. Chatterbox Labs provides high-tech AI risk assessment and model testing capabilities. The company has, in fact, been a major player in the support of the identification of bias, vulnerabilities. Risks of misuse in the cases of organizations. So, Red Hat is planning to roll out these concepts in its open source platforms by their integration there.
Steven Huels, Vice President, AI Engineering and Product Strategy, Red Hat.
“Enterprises are rapidly moving AI from lab to production, increasing the need for trusted, secure, & transparent AI deployments,” Huels said, “Chatterbox Labs’ model-agnostic safety testing and guardrail technology provides the critical ‘security for AI’ layer. Integrating it into Red Hat AI strengthens our open-source platform, enabling safe, responsible, production-grade AI at scale.”
Stuart Battersby, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Chatterbox Labs.
“As AI spreads across business and society, safety cannot be a proprietary black box,” Battersby said, “AI guardrails must be rigorously tested with measurable metrics. Chatterbox Labs pioneered this from early predictive AI to agentic systems. Joining Red Hat allows us to provide validated safety metrics to the open-source community, ensuring AI remains secure, scalable, & transparent.”
Red Hat’s AI security acquisition demonstrates its strong commitment to developing ethical AI and advancing responsible, trustworthy artificial intelligence solutions. Consequently, enterprises are confronted with rising regulatory and operational challenges related to the use of AI. Therefore, the demand for scalable AI security tools is continuously growing. Red Hat is under the umbrella of IBM and advocates enterprise-grade open source innovation. In line with this strategy, AI security is central to hybrid cloud deployments. So, generally, the acquisition is a step for Red Hat to lead the way in trusted AI adoption.
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Source: Businesswire
