Red Hat collaborates with Stability AI to enhance OpenShift AI platform

Red Hat has announced a collaboration with Stability AI, a vendor of open and multi-modal generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions. The collaboration aims to incorporate open GenAI models within Red Hat's OpenShift AI platform. This development will enable Red Hat OpenShift AI customers to conveniently access state-of-the-art open-source large language models (LLMs) to create, assess, and generate proofs of concept for AI use cases within their existing platform.

Steven Huels, vice president and general manager AI Business Unit at Red Hat, stated, "Through our collaboration with Stability AI, Red Hat is providing Red Hat OpenShift AI customers with the power of choice and increased access to open source models, as well as the opportunity to test and produce AI proofs of concept within a familiar platform that meets their organisational IT security and data protection policies."

Despite acknowledging that AI can perform transformational operations within their firms, many organisations still hesitate to universally adopt AI. Their uncertainties stem from concerns over how to adopt the technology given their limited resources, infrastructure, models, and budget. To enable their operations to reap the full benefits of AI's transformative capabilities, organisations need to gain easier access to robust, adaptable, and ultimately functional AI tools that can be supported on a scalable infrastructure platform to cater to their business needs.

Red Hat provides such access to Stability AI models. This ensures that customers have the ability to select the right model for the right AI use case in the right location. As Red Hat OpenShift AI provides a ready-to-go AI application platform to facilitate data acquisition, model training and precise optimisation, customers can now effortlessly access Stability AI's open models for a broad range of AI use cases, including image, video, audio, 3D, coding and language.

Key gains of this include the ability to innovate and scale while maintaining enhanced data and product control in a well-known environment. There is also access to open-source GenAI models that can be applied across sectors and applications. Models are constructed with a safety-first approach to ensure product integrity during early development phases. Risks related to IT security, compliance, and privacy are cut by offering customers a secure environment to design their AI strategies. This initiative also reduces costs for customers to experiment with and implement AI use cases within their existing Red Hat OpenShift AI platform experience.

Christian Laforte, co-interim CEO and chief technology officer at Stability AI, expressed, "We are committed to ensuring GenAI is open, safe, and universally accessible. By collaborating with Red Hat, which shares a similar ethos, Stability AI's models can reach more users globally and help developers transform data into intelligence."