Red Hat buys Chatterbox Labs for AI security and trust

RALEIGH, N.C. - Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has acquired Chatterbox Labs, a pioneer in model-agnostic AI safety and generative AI (gen AI) guardrails. This acquisition adds critical "security for AI" capabilities to the Red Hat AI portfolio, strengthening the company's efforts to deliver a comprehensive, open source enterprise AI platform built for the hybrid cloud.

This announcement builds on a year of rapid innovation for Red Hat AI, following the introduction of Red Hat AI Inference Server and the launch of Red Hat AI 3. Customers around the world and across industries are adopting Red Hat AI to drive innovation through generative, predictive and agentic AI applications. As enterprises move from experimentation to production, they face a complex challenge: deploying models that are not only powerful but also demonstrable, trustworthy and safe. Safety and guardrail capabilities are table stakes for modern machine learning operations (MLOps). This focus on security and trust reflects Red Hat and IBM’s commitment to helping clients adopt a security-first mindset as they scale AI responsibly across hybrid cloud environments. The integration of Chatterbox Labs' technology creates a unified platform where safety is built in, strengthening Red Hat's ability to enable production AI workloads with any model, on any accelerator, anywhere.

Read the full announcement here.