Red Hat Buys Chatterbox Labs to Boost AI Safety and Trust in Hybrid Cloud Platforms

Red Hat has announced the acquisition of Chatterbox Labs, a specialist in model-agnostic AI safety and guardrail technologies, reinforcing its push to embed trusted, secure AI capabilities into its enterprise AI offerings.

The move expands the Red Hat AI portfolio, enhancing its ability to support responsible, production-grade AI deployments across hybrid cloud environments.

Chatterbox Labs, founded in 2011, brings deep expertise in AI safety testing, quantitative risk metrics and generative AI guardrails, tools aimed at ensuring that organisations can deploy powerful AI models with confidence.

Its technologies deliver automated risk evaluation and protective mechanisms such as bias, toxicity and robustness checks — key requirements as companies move from experimental use of AI to large-scale operational systems.

“Enterprises are moving AI from the lab to production with great speed, which elevates the urgency for trusted, secure and transparent AI deployments. Chatterbox Labs's innovative, model-agnostic safety testing and guardrail technology is the critical ‘security for AI’ layer that the industry needs.”

“By integrating Chatterbox Labs into the Red Hat AI portfolio, we are strengthening our promise to customers to provide a comprehensive, open source platform that not only enables them to run any model, anywhere, but to do so with the confidence that safety is built in from the start,” said Steven Huels, vice president, AI Engineering and Product Strategy at Red Hat.

“As AI systems proliferate across every aspect of business and society, we cannot allow safety to become a proprietary black box. It is critical that AI guardrails are not merely deployed; they must be rigorously tested and supported by demonstrable metrics,” Stuart Battersby, co-founder and CTO of Chatterbox Labs, added.

The acquisition aligns with Red Hat’s broader hybrid cloud strategy and complements recent advances such as Red Hat AI 3 and Red Hat AI Inference Server, offering enterprises a unified platform where safety, transparency and performance go hand in hand.