LONDON – August 20, 2026 Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions and subsidiary of IBM, today announced a partnership with FLock.io, a leading privacy-preserving AI solution provider. FLock.io will deliver federated learning (FL) to Red Hat’s ecosystem of global organisations.

Red Hat provides enterprise-grade open-source infrastructure trusted by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies, as well as public-sector institutions including the UK Government, the Government of Ireland, major European cities and US state agencies. Red Hat works across a global technology ecosystem that includes industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, Intel and Dell Technologies.

FLock.io’s enterprise-grade, cloud-native infrastructure will be integrated into Red Hat’s stack and broadly adopted by global organisations.

The partnership forms part of Red Hat’s expansion of its sovereign and private cloud capabilities, empowering global organisations with greater control over their technology and data. The two companies are defining a future where privacy, control and transparency are foundational.

FL is a technique for collaboratively training a model without sharing the data. It’s valued by the private and public sectors for building custom models on sensitive data without compromising privacy, compliance, or operational control. FL Alliance – FLock.io’s FL platform – will be extensively deployed, delivering enterprise-grade FL to global use cases in a standardised way. It will be listed on the Red Hat partner marketplace for its clients to use.

FLock.io is working towards enabling scalable, production-oriented FL deployments by combining its privacy-preserving AI infrastructure with cloud-native orchestration frameworks.

This work reflects a broader shift in federated learning – from primarily research-driven experimentation towards more structured, real-world deployment scenarios. By aligning with open-source infrastructure and enterprise tooling ecosystems, FLock.io aims to lower the barrier for organisations adopting privacy-preserving AI.

Jiahao Sun, CEO of FLock.io, said: “By working within the Red Hat ecosystem, we are taking an important step toward making privacy-preserving AI through federated learning more accessible in real-world environments.

He added: “This work reflects our commitment to building interoperable, open-source infrastructure that allows developers to deploy AI models within trusted cloud-native environments.”

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About FLock.io

FLock.io is an AI research and infrastructure company pioneering enterprise-grade federated learning and distributed AI solutions. Its decentralised federated learning architecture and production-ready platforms (AI Arena, FL Alliance, and FLock API Platform) enable organisations to train and deploy their own custom AI models on local hardware while maintaining full data privacy, model ownership, and regulatory alignment by design.

FLock.io is internationally recognised for its research, including by the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s MINDS programme for two NHS trusts using its privacy-preserving AI to tackle major diseases.

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere – from the datacenter to the edge. As the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrow's IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning training and certification offerings.