Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has announced expanded updates in its ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate security-focused, enterprise-grade agentic AI across the open hybrid cloud using Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA. By combining agent security capabilities, optimized model deployment architectures and deep hardware enablement, Red Hat and NVIDIA are empowering organizations to build, deploy and scale autonomous AI agents with trusted security and control.
Red Hat has announced expanded updates to Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA for enterprise agentic AI.
Red Hat is working with NVIDIA on the OpenShell Reference Architecture, an agent sandbox runtime and open source project both companies lead contributions to.
A joint reference design built on Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA incorporates Model-as-a-Service access control, AI Gateway and high-performance inference through vLLM and llm-d, alongside NVIDIA Dynamo, NIM microservices and GPU orchestration.
NVIDIA Nemotron models, including Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, are fully supported in vLLM and Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA.
Red Hat continues to deliver Day 0 enablement for upcoming NVIDIA architectures including Vera Rubin.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA now provides support for NVIDIA Vera CPUs.
"Enhancing the security of agentic AI will fuel the next major evolution in enterprise computing, but scaling autonomous agents requires trust, safety and seamless infrastructure integration. By deepening our collaboration with NVIDIA across open source communities like OpenShell, delivering optimized inference architectures and driving day-zero hardware enablement, we are giving IT decision-makers the trusted foundation they need to confidently deploy AI agents at scale," said Joe Fernandes, vice president and general manager, AI Business Unit, Red Hat.
"An agent shouldn't be enforcing its own boundaries — those controls belong outside the agent, in the runtime and the infrastructure beneath it. NVIDIA's expanded work with Red Hat combines a secure agent runtime, governed inference and deep hardware support to give enterprises a trusted, high-performance blueprint for agentic AI across the open hybrid cloud," said John Fanelli, vice president, Enterprise Software, NVIDIA.
To establish safety and control at the core of enterprise agentic AI deployments, Red Hat is working with NVIDIA on the OpenShell Reference Architecture and supporting it through integrations with Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA. This joint initiative leverages open source community innovation through OpenShell, an agent sandbox runtime and open source project for which Red Hat and NVIDIA are leading contributors, delivering standardized guardrails, operational visibility and runtime safety.
Agents drive significant inference demand, requiring optimized execution layers and more efficient model access. To help organizations meet this demand, Red Hat and NVIDIA have developed a joint reference design built on Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA that incorporates Model-as-a-Service access control, AI Gateway and high-performance inference through vLLM and llm-d, alongside NVIDIA Dynamo, NVIDIA NIM microservices and GPU orchestration. This enterprise-ready reference implementation is based on the NVIDIA Inference Hub reference design and provides self-service model discovery, fine-grained access policy, rate limiting and subscription-based entitlement tracking.
In addition, the latest NVIDIA Nemotron models, including NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, are fully supported in vLLM and Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA. By leveraging quantization techniques through Red Hat's LLM compressor, organizations can benefit from significantly reduced inference latency while retaining accuracy.
To help enterprise infrastructure keep pace with demanding agent workloads, Red Hat continues its deep hardware alignment with NVIDIA to deliver Day 0 enablement for its upcoming architectures, including NVIDIA Vera Rubin. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA now also provides support for NVIDIA Vera CPUs, enabling optimized performance for agent processing and computational execution. Vera CPUs deliver 2X faster agentic CPU performance for longer-thinking agents, faster-learning RL systems and data-driven AI factories.
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