Red Hat has announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by delivering a complete AI stack optimized for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform. This partnership will focus on integrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat AI with NVIDIA’s latest rack-scale AI technologies.
Matt Hicks, president and CEO of Red Hat, stated: “NVIDIA’s architectural breakthroughs have made AI an imperative, proving that the computing stack will define the industry’s future. To meet these tectonic shifts at launch, Red Hat and NVIDIA aim to provide Day 0 support for the latest NVIDIA architectures across Red Hat’s hybrid cloud and AI portfolios. Together, we are fueling the next generation of enterprise AI through the power of open source.”
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “Red Hat revolutionized enterprise computing with industrial-strength open-source software. In the age of AI, the entire computing stack—from chips and systems to middleware, models, and the AI lifecycle—is being reinvented from the ground up. Together, NVIDIA and Red Hat are industrializing open source to bring AI to the enterprise, starting with the Vera Rubin platform.”
The collaboration aims to address a growing trend where organizations seek to move from experimental use of AI into production environments using centralized strategies and toolboxes that include advanced agents. Achieving this requires stable infrastructure capable of supporting high-performance workloads securely.
The new NVIDIA Rubin platform introduces several technological advancements such as the Vera CPU—which is designed for energy efficiency in large-scale operations—the BlueField-4 data processor, and rack-scale solutions like NVL72. With Day 0 support planned for these features across its portfolio—including operating system-level integration—Red Hat intends to offer validated interoperability between its software platforms and NVIDIA hardware.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux will act as a bridge between emerging hardware innovations from NVIDIA and complex software ecosystems needed for modern AI applications. The company plans to introduce support for confidential computing throughout the entire lifecycle of AI processes—adding security features for GPUs, memory protection, cryptographic proofing capabilities—and maintain operational consistency across various deployment models including on-premises infrastructure or public clouds.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift will integrate tools like CUDA X libraries directly into Kubernetes-powered environments while automating management tasks related to accelerated computing resources. The inclusion of support for BlueField processors is expected to improve networking performance and resource utilization.
On top of these developments in foundational infrastructure software, Red Hat’s production-ready enterprise AI platform will expand integrations with distributed inference using both proprietary and open-source models from NVIDIA—not just those within Nemotron but also other vision-, robotics-, or industry-specific offerings.
A new edition called Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA will be released in alignment with new hardware launches; it will feature streamlined driver management via direct access to GPU drivers/toolkits within standard repositories as well as enhanced security measures such as SELinux enforcement.
Availability for this integrated offering is scheduled alongside general release dates for relevant NVIDIA products in late 2026; customers can access updates through established channels like the Red Hat Customer Portal.
This initiative underscores how both companies are working together so organizations can deploy scalable enterprise-grade solutions leveraging open-source technologies backed by commercial support networks spanning multiple vendors in hybrid cloud settings.
