Red Hat and Rebellions Launch OpenShift AI with NPUs to Cut Enterprise AI Costs

The new partnership introduces an enterprise-validated AI platform combining OpenShift AI with energy-efficient NPUs to run scalable inference across any model, accelerator, and cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift AI, powered by Rebellions' neural processing units (NPUs), which combines Red Hat's scalable, flexible, and open-source AI inference capabilities with Rebellions' energy-efficient NPUs to deliver a validated full-stack enterprise AI platform, was announced today by Rebellions and Red Hat, the world's top supplier of open-source solutions. By providing greater flexibility and choice in the architectures supporting AI workloads, this partnership fully supports Red Hat's objective of providing any model, any accelerator, any cloud to customers worldwide.

Challenges including infrastructure costs, installation complexity, and demands for flexible environments with improved security footprints are becoming more obvious as organizations move AI initiatives into actual business cases. The performance and efficiency needs at scale may not be met by GPU-centric merely. These issues are addressed by Red Hat OpenShift AI powered by Rebellions NPUs, which enables organizations to run AI workloads more effectively across environments.

With an architecture customized for AI inference, Rebellions' NPUs are more cost-effective than traditional GPUs, which more successfully lowers data center deployment and operating expenses at the server and rack levels. The same degree of convenient development environment as GPUs is offered by their specialized full-stack software and support for top open-source AI frameworks.

From hardware to model serving, Red Hat OpenShift AI powered by Rebellions NPUs provides a complete system that has been verified for enterprise-grade compatibility by both Red Hat and Rebellions. Red Hat OpenShift AI powers Rebellions' software stack directly, which lowers overhead and accelerates deployment. With its Red Hat OpenShift certification, the Rebellions NPU Operator enables improved support and effortless connection between on-premises and multi-cloud systems, supporting regulatory compliance and data sovereignty.