OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents
OpenAI is acquiring the cybersecurity startup Promptfoo, which provides
tools to help safeguard and test complex artificial intelligence systems.
The Sam Altman-led firm did
not disclose the terms of the deal, but said Promptfoo’s team would join
OpenAI. Promptfoo’s security tools will be brought within OpenAI’s Frontier
platform for AI agents.
“As
AI agents become more connected to real data and systems, securing and
validating them is more challenging and important than ever,” Promptfoo CEO Ian
Webster said in a statement. “Joining OpenAI lets us accelerate this work,
bringing stronger security, safety, and governance capabilities to the teams
building real-world AI systems.”
OpenAI said that it would also
continue building Promptfoo’s popular open-source project
that lets developers test various AI-related prompts and agents and compare the
performance of large language models like ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini.
OpenAI has been gobbling up startups
and tech executives in recent months amid the hyper-competitive AI market in
which it competes with companies like Anthropic, Google and Meta.
In January, OpenAI acquired the
health-care tech startup Torch for roughly $60 million, CNBC reported. That
deal followed OpenAI’s announcement in October that it acquired the startup
Software Applications, which made an AI-interface dubbed Sky for Apple Mac
users.
Leave A Comment