OpenAI Buying AI Security Startup Promptfoo to Safeguard Agents

OpenAI has agreed to buy Promptfoo, a startup that enables large businesses to find and fix security issues in artificial intelligence models during their development, part of a push to help corporate customers reduce possible risks from deploying AI software.

The ChatGPT maker is set to announce Monday that it will integrate Promptfoo’s technology into OpenAI Frontier, a recently launched platform that allows organizations to build and manage AI agents. Frontier is meant to help ensure each agent — which OpenAI refers to as “AI coworkers” — has appropriate guardrails and data access. Terms of the acquisition weren’t disclosed.

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