InstructLab (Red Hat / IBM) alternatives

Red Hat / IBM-stewarded open-source framework for community-driven LLM alignment + fine-tuning (LAB method, IBM Research 2024; Granite models). Apache 2.0. Full InstructLab (Red Hat / IBM) record →

What the maintainers say

The instructlab/instructlab repo was archived read-only on 2026-04-23; a 2025-09-02 README announcement split the project into separate component repos.

  1. For synthetic data generation, move to sdg_hub (github.com/Red-Hat-AI-Innovation-Team/sdg_hub)
  2. For training, move to training_hub (github.com/Red-Hat-AI-Innovation-Team/training_hub)
  3. The archived CLI stays readable on GitHub but gets no further fixes; its last release is v0.26.1 (2025-05-05)

Sources: github.com · pypi.org · checked 2026-10-27

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  6. 6 MultiOn (now AGI, Inc.) Multi-agent orchestration platforms ⚠ renamed — now AGI, Inc.

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  7. 7 OpenHands Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

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  8. 8 Pipecat (Daily) Voice agent platforms

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